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Defiant Grower Johnston did not say that the Government should be the goat forever. But, comparing surplus cotton stocks to a strategic-materials stockpile, he intimated that the Government might sell the cotton abroad at a profit after the war. (He recalled that after World War I the foreign cotton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COTTON: Red Hose In the Sunset | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

"G." Gertrude Lawrence, known to her intimates as "Gertie" or "G," has long had this sort of effect on the most bilious critics. After her Broadway debut in 1924, one of the most acid reviewers, the late Percy Hammond, said that "Every man in town is, or will be, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

. . . If 1940 is to be associated in history with the accomplishments of Mr. Churchill, I'm a one-legged Eskimo.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Onetime Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney, in a Stamford, Conn. court, paid a $15 fine for running over a dog, failing to report the accident. Boxer Tunney, lighter on his feet than most distillery board chairmen, then swung unexpectedly through a window, plopped into a snowdrift eight feet below, legged it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

In allowing its prize package this lapse in physical supremacy, Republic may be taking a grave risk. Previous box-office receipts indicate the country likes him rugged. Possibly as a sop, Republic gives the customers some extra favors. Long-legged Tap Dancer Ann Miller (Too Many Girls) swings through a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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