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New York, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas each wanted a taxable slice of the $36,000.000 kitty left when, nearly three years ago, Death came to peg-legged, pleasure-loving Colonel Edward Howland Robinson ("Ned") Green, son of that fabulous old miser, Hetty Green. Colonel Green, who liked to fly his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Laurence Stallings, 44, one-legged playwright and scenarist (The Big Parade, What Price Glory?), and his second wife: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Laurence Jr.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Baiting an Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Debt & Economy | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

Walter Huston, as peg-legged Pieter Stuyvesant in Knickerbocker Holiday, is a big acting hit on Broadway. One day this week, the 267th anniversary of Stuyvesant's death, Huston, in full costume, stumped up the chancel steps of Manhattan's historic St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Last week's show proved that the breed, by now almost pure filet mignon, is still improving. This year's Mercer and 1900's Advance were both Aberdeen-Angus. But Mercer, only 22 months old to Advance's 26, was shorter-legged, closer to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pure Filet Mignon | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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