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...Manager Benny Woodall, no muscular match for his accuser but apparently a fearless man. Witnesses for Husband Jack Dempsey testified that they had rushed with him into a Los Angeles apartment ("Mr. Dempsey leaned against the door and it went down") and found red-headed wife Hannah in blue pajamas, Woodall in pajama trousers and undershirt. A detective testified that, when Mrs. Dempsey asked her husband what he was doing there, Mr. Dempsey's reply was: "I'm following you and that rat, and you're a no good rat yourself, running around with a rat like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Groaned Rector: "Let's get going." In the wardroom, about the size of a Pullman drawing room, Rector stretched out on the table beneath a floodlight ordinarily used for loading. The pharmacist's mate and assisting officers pulled on reversed pajama tops, masked their faces with gauze. From end to end the submarine, riding deep under the surface, was tense. Men stood by the diving planes to keep her steady. In the galley the cook kept water boiling in his kettles for sterilizing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Surgeon for a Day | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Shorter shirt tails-one inch would save 4,000,000 yards of cotton a year-were urged by the National Association of Shirt and Pajama Manufacturers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: That's All There Is | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

With anti-aircraft guns popping and U.S. pursuits headed aloft, pajama-clad citizens piled out of bed to dash downtown or head for the hills where they could get a good view. Few of them were panicky, many were nonchalant. Shouted one man as he dashed past a CBS observer: "The mainland papers will exaggerate this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

...pajama-clad Yardlings assembled, and water began to seep under first floor doorsills, firemen determined the cause of the nocturnal deluge to be the mysterious melting of wax in a second floor sprinkler. Head Fire Chief Herman E. Gutholm was heard to mutier, as he drove away in disgust. "Sabotage, no doubt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Midnight Sprinkler Shower Starts Yardling Fire Scare | 11/27/1941 | See Source »

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