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Ambition. In Atlantic City, three-year-old David Cavanaugh started an empty milk truck, crashed into a car, ricocheted into another, smacked into a house, got out unhurt, declared: "I want to be a milkman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Milk Punch. In Los Angeles, Milkman Morris E. Booze crashed into a parked car, was arrested for drunken driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

People who know Philip L. Graham, 30, think the boss's daughter married well. As a student at the University of Florida, intelligent, easygoing Phil Graham weathered a depression year by working as a Miami milkman. In 1939 he was graduated from Harvard Law School, where he edited the Law Review. Then he became a law secretary, first to Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed, then to Justice Felix Frankfurter (a close friend of Meyer's). He worked briefly for the Office of Emergency Management. In 1942 Graham entered the Army Air Forces as a private, came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Headline of the Week | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Singing Commercial. In Westchester County, N.Y., General Diaper Service added ex-Milkman Mike Maloney to its staff. His job: crooning lullabies by phone to fretful babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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