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Maxence d'Entremont was a big, jovial man with a big round head, no hair, a prominent brow, wide shoulders, a deep chest, long legs and almost no neck. When the doorbell rang in the morning he would shout: "The police!" When he led his daughter across the street he would say: "Let's keep together; it will cost them more to run over two persons." He could sketch brilliantly, but would not. He fought 17 duels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye, Papa, Goodbye | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...Hold the Cork." Not until some time after Christmas Day did residents of Manila begin to feel real anxiety. Up to that time bleary-eyed Americans stood in jovial groups around Manila's bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Killed in Action. First Lieut. Peter Gerald Lehman, 27, eldest son of United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration Director Herbert Henry Lehman, roommate of top-flight U.S. Ace Captain Don Gentile; in the crash of his fighter plane; somewhere in England. Powerful, popular, jovial Lehman, a football player at Lehigh (ex-'40), joined the R.C.A.F. after having been rejected (because he was married) by the Army & Navy Air Corps, served 18 months of active service in England as a sergeant-pilot before transferring to the U.S.A.A.F. as a flight officer. He had completed 57 combat missions, been awarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1944 | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Bedroom. The President was jovial. He announced cheerfully he had decided to veto the new tax bill. He proceeded to read excerpts from his veto message. A three-against-one argument promptly boiled up. While Wallace sat silent, Barkley, Rayburn and McCormack vigorously tried to persuade the President to change his mind. A veto, they argued, would simply mean throwing away more than two billion dollars in revenue. Why not let this bill become law without his signature? A veto would stir up fresh bitterness in an already restless and resentful Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barkley Incident | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Jorge ("Coke") Délano is a peppery, jovial, chunky Latin of 47, whose chief claim to distinction is not that he is a distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt* but that he is founder-owner-publisher-editor and No. 1 caricaturist of one of South America's most engrossing magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cartoons in Chile | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

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