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...Basso Pinza, his agents are now circulating a glossy, 60-page book which describes the singer as "a bronze Roman god come to life [and] one of the 14 most glamorous men in the world. . . ." He "sends chills down feminine spines." The press book urges household editors to mull over Pinza's recipe for Verona fish pudding; farm editors are assured that he is a poultry breeder. Pinza fans, under the spell of their hero, see nothing amiss in this ballyhoo: they consider him every bit as good as the overblown Pinza publicity says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: He Gives Them Chills | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

People without Passion. His reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Boyhood | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Actually, many of the corporations which have filed know that their chances of collecting are slim. A large number have put in a bid only to get in under the statute of limitations, while they mull over whether to push their case. Others have filed merely for the record, i.e., to protect themselves against suits of stockholders who might otherwise feel the corporation was lax. Some tax experts guess that, at most, corporations may prove their claims to $3 billions. This is well worth the try, although the net gain will be far less. In many cases, corporations will have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Try to Get It | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

...about a plane become important that you can overlook on the ground." The details of design are left to young William T. ("Bill") Schwendler, 40, who bosses the company's 500 engineers. Bill Schwendler sits down with Roy & Jake when a new design is gestating, and they 11 mull it over. He has a sixth sense as to what Roy wants. Thus, to get a prototype of the newest Grumman plane, Roy simply wrote out a memo describing what he wanted, and sent it over to Bill Schwendler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...trying to rescue Pittsburgh from doldrums brought on by a violent attack of simon-pure amateurism. His Panthers have yet to make a touchdown, but he has found his dream team in football's record book, sets it out in his Football in War & Peace for fans to mull over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Peace & War | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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