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...hammer-hitting Lew Tendler, 42, sparred three rounds at a Philadelphia exhibition for charity, accorded each other the victory. Both now run restaurants, Leonard in Manhattan, Tendler in Philadelphia. Boxer Benny, who won a famous fight from Tendler in 1922 mostly by his wits, had already explained how the paunch-pushing would go: "He's going to hit me with a left hook-not too hard-and I'm going to talk him out of the fight all over again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...current cacophony sound like the music of the spheres. And a kaleidoscopic flashback on World War 1 backs up Professor Elliott by showing that Harvard Square really is a very disagreeable place compared to a battlefield. Jack Oakie, though, provides some of the best mugging since he annexed a paunch and gave up Joe College roles; and he slips a couple of resounding swats past the censors' guard smack on Grable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...after the election, Hopson draped his paunch over a courtroom chair, listened to the opening statement of Prosecuting Attorney Fulton, who told the court how Hoppy had wandered through the mazes of Associated, taking a cut of employes' salaries, padding bills against the system, pocketing profits from selling the services of one subsidiary to another, inducing investors to buy non-voting stocks and bonds while he held control with $100,000 of voting stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: A. G. & E., Round IV | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...Lady in Question" gives audience a look at much-boomed Rita Hayworth. The boom looks very much like the South Sea Bubble of L' Affaire Sheridan. The real substance of the picture is Brian Aherne, who, adorned with a paunch and soup-strainer, puts on a fine characterization not in line with his usual dashing roles. But still and all, the film is B minus stuff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/15/1940 | See Source »

...lead pipe to swing whenever he thought of him, was "Chappie"- St. Paul's famed Housemaster Willard "Chappie" Scudder. Chappie wore a bifocal pince-nez and a drooping, waxed mustache, dressed in the height of fashion, was thoroughly at home at lawn parties,"never let his slight paunch get to be more than a slight paunch," in every way exemplified "the right attitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Wrong Attitude | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

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