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Running to a car parked nearby, the painters found a note signed by August De Mont, 37, an ailing shipyard worker. "I and my daughter," it said, "have committed suicide." De Mont had had an appointment with a doctor that morning to take a basal metabolism test. He had not gone. With his five-year-old daughter, who had cried to go along just for the ride, he had driven straight to the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Fourth Commandment | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

Flush. In Missoula, Mont., John Brandenburg was jailed when he refused to pay a $5 fine and stubbornly flushed all his money - $1,055 - down a courthouse toilet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 30, 1945 | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...chill, grey dawn, near Malta, Mont., some 250 people waited nervously. John Q. Stewart, Princeton astronomer, and General Electric's James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Watchers | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

OPAngler. In Miles City, Mont., des perate Fisherman Frank Spears finally put a red ration token on his hook, presently caught a sucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...There is no substitute for experience, and in radio's present phase, comedians who have laid eggs in Waterbury and stolen bows in Bozeman, Mont, are best equipped to survive. . . . When you are ill, you certainly won't call in a doctor who still has the price tag dangling on his stethoscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Proving Ground? | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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