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OLSEN AND JOHNSON, WALTER HUSTON, TEDDY HART, SOPHIE TUCKER, HELEN CLAIRE, BILL GAXTON, VICTOR MOORE OR GLADYS COOPER. YOU LEFT YOUR MUFFLER IN MY OFFICE. WILL YOU PLEASE SEND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

When cancer and syphilis were under a general radio muffler, he aired lecture series on both. Last summer station KFI (Los Angeles), also Holliway-managed, lectured parents on their duties, illustrated the need for parental understanding by broadcasting the dramatized story of a 15-year-old girl with an advanced case of gonorrhea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Why Not? | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...Muffler. Wags have said: "In England everything stops for tea." And contemporary wags have added that British workingmen would stop a revolution for a soccer Cup Final. As the soccer season last week reached a point something like the Fourth of July in U. S. baseball, discussions in pubs and clubs rose to a fine pitch of excitement. Although Brentford, a London club, was leading the First Division, with 14 wins and seven draws for a total of 35 points,† another London club, Arsenal, was widely fancied to end the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...year income. Some tony innovations: a Club Enclosure (special section for 150 $50-a-year members who come in bowlers and tweeds), "lifts" in the grandstands, five bars, a ladies' tea room. But in spite of Director Allison's attempt to elevate the sport above the "cap & muffler" crowd, soccer is still, for the most part, the game of the working classes. England's upper crust still prefers cricket and rugby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: September to May | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...characteristic anticlimax Larry Kelley had the grippe. The 7,500 hero worshippers who went to Boston's Fenway Park to see him-only a third that many people ordinarily go to see the Shamrocks-were disappointed. Larry Kelley was present, but sitting in a box with a muffler round his neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heroes for Pay | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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