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...Norfolk, Neb. From 16 to 35, Dick amazed Wild West show audiences (including "Buffalo Bill" Cody's) with a brace of pearl-handled .44s. In 1909 he got his M.D., practiced in Norfolk for 15 years before neighbors knew they were being treated by the old pal of "Calamity Jane" and "Pawnee Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1943 | 7/12/1943 | See Source »

...rolled off the table and killed a pal of mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1943 | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

They and Their Pals. To be amphibious-that was the basic Commando requirement. On Britain's coast, selected soldiers merged the lore of the Royal Navy with their own. They learned how to "get in and out of a small boat in all kinds of weather"; to swim, fully equipped, holding their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Commandos | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...shows (present Crossley rating: 33.4) since December 1940, belong almost entirely to Play wright Goldsmith, a gentle, home-loving family man with thinning slicked hair, blue eyes and a puckish smile. He has the capacity for making his characters, especially Henry (Norman Tokar) and his pal Homer Brown (Jackie Kelk), seem warmly human, pleasantly credible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: What a Family | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...people in U.S. radio have made such a good thing out of insulting advertisers on such a scale as a onetime bookkeeper and dance-hall manager named Joe Gentile, 34, and his childhood pal Ralph Binge, 38, onetime plumber's helper, amateur boxer, and door-to-door salesman. The eleven-year-old program has 40-odd sponsors who paid some $250,000 last year for the privilege of hearing their products and services derided. There is also a waiting list of hopeful sponsors. But last week Gentile & Binge refused to take on any more. They thought that three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio, Mar. 22, 1943 | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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