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A young man, with a bowler hat, cane, flaxen moustache, and blue suit was looking at a gorilla in a zoo. . . . Perceiving that they were alone, the gorilla addressed the young man as follows: "You look very good-natured. Get me a suit like yours, only larger, a bowler hat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hoot Owl at Large | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

The peasants of Thailand, comprising 80% of the country's population, are well-built, short-statured, brown-skinned, good-natured men, chewers of betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: Affair of the Mekong | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

More than that, Miss Tennant invited good-natured, green-eyed Tomboy Alice to share her Los Angeles home, became her teacher, manager, mother, mouthpiece. Under her guidance, Alice Marble developed into the hardest-hitting woman player in the U. S. Just as Brother Dan had suggested, she went "round the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tomboy Turns Pro | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Last week a roomful of businessmen, New Dealers, bankers and labor leaders met in Washington to talk about the Re-employment of Labor and Capital. Host was the Savings Bank Journal's editor, Milton Harrison (TIME, Sept. 30), who has held six similar forums this year. Moderator was a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR,RAILROADS,MERCHANDISING: The Wages of Defense | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

Quick to spot dramatic detail, General Paul's third eye was in a position to pry into everything from the love letters of the Internationals in the trenches to the secret sessions of the staff. Most of what he pried into, Regler got into his novel. For back of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epitaph | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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