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...Devil you depict could not seduce even Lena the Hyena. Nothing like him was ever kicked out of Heaven. Fact is the Devil is good-looking ... he has a Clark Gable mustache and a widow's peak like Robert Taylor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 22, 1947 | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Bouncing Baby. In Brooklyn, Marie-lena Lucas, 2, leaned too far from an attic window, fell 30 feet to a porch roof, 15 feet farther to the ground, got away with minor bumps and scratches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Your June 2 Billy Rose cover . . . ended up in the garbage can. I could stand Lena the Hyena, but that cover-ugh! TIME must be getting hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...idea what to do to get along without a cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bumpkins' Biographer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Lane Bryant started out as Lena Himmelstein. She came to the U.S. from Lithuania in 1895, at 16. After four years of struggling along as a seamstress, she married a Russian jewelry salesman named David Bryant. Within a year, the couple had a son, but a few months later Bryant died. The young widow pawned her diamond earrings, bought a sewing machine, started making lingerie at home. By 1907 she was prospering sufficiently to borrow $300 to start a separate shop, and open a bank account. At the bank, she accidentally signed her name "Lane" instead of "Lena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For the Pregnant & Plump | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

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