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Triangle. In Brantford, Ont., Gordon Schwitzer, testifying at his wife's bigamy trial, explained to the court that he thought her first husband was "just another boy friend who didn't want me around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Shoemaker's Child. In Port Arthur, Ont., Paul Gibbon, whose job is issuing radio licenses, was fined $5 and costs for not having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

AWOL. In Thessalon, Ont., after worrying over their missing police chief for a week, the town council decided to fire him for neglecting his duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Businessman. In Moffat, Ont., Grocer Russell Stock Elsley raced into a burning house to rescue Harry Smith, modestly shrugged off praise by explaining: "He's a good customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...would take to train, plane or steamship whenever the urge hit him. He once turned up a week late on a trip from Hollywood to Manhattan to work on Red, Hot and Blue. He explained to his collaborators, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, that he had detoured to Callander, Ont., to get a look at the Dionne quintuplets. Once, drinking dark beer in Munich with a Yale crony, Monty Woolley, he decided to follow the trail of the brew as it grew lighter; they wound up in Pilsen. In 1935, Playwright Moss Hart got the idea of taking a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Professional Amateur | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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