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...kin to the late great Strong Boy of Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Splash! | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...kin of Labor Minister Ernest Bevin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Playing Fields of Eton | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

Last week the Boston Bees, orphans of the National Baseball League, were adopted at last. Their orphanage dates back to 1935, when Boston Grocer Charles Francis Adams (not to be confused with onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, no kin) took over controlling interest in the Boston Braves. Grocer Adams also owned Boston's sumptuous Suffolk Downs race track. That made him, in the eyes of Baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis, a greenbacked Satan. In governing baseball's affairs, Judge Landis has always had one rigid rule: no one connected with horse racing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar for the Bees | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...same evening the verdict was announced, Dr. Louis S. Reed, senior economist of the U. S. Public Health Service, came out publicly for Government-sponsored health insurance. *No kin to Ambassador to France Admiral William D. Leahy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.M.A. Convicted | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

Best of them is The Betrothed, in which a farm girl, nudged subtly toward it by animals, the comments of her kin, the gruesome half-incantations of her grandmother over a vat of hogs' entrails, is curdled against marriage. Good too is Holy Morning, in which, in an almost magically beautiful atmosphere, two sisters prepare for Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Womanly Strength & Weakness | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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