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Even more amazing is the make-up magic by which Westmore somehow transfers burly, bulging Cinemactor Laughton's paunch to his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...eleven years K. T. Keller has had only three vacations (fishing). He has cut out figure skating, at which he once excelled, because it took too much time. A rounding paunch has been the penalty, more time for work the reward. He plays golf abominably ("I get quite a thrill if I break 100"), avoids bridge for more than a tenth of a cent "because it gets too serious and I don't have the time to devote to the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: K.T. | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...wartime specifications. Changes extended from the Cabinet (see p. 9) down to bureaus where the urgencies of peace-in-war abruptly supplanted the routines of peace. Great was the demand for lean fellows, hungry for action. Under the new faces which went to Washington appeared hardly a single paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Lean Men | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...years ago Labormaster John L. Lewis, after long study of the meat industry, slapped his paunch impatiently and sent his No. 1 soapbox fireball, Van A. Bittner, to organize Chicago's 24,000 packinghouse workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Last weekend, two years of patient preparation matured in a mass meeting in the Chicago Coliseum. John Lewis was ready to move against Armour, second packer in the Big Four. In 17 Armour plants from St. Paul to Los Angeles to Birmingham, Ala. to Milwaukee, the Packinghouse Workers Organizing Committee had either been named sole bargaining agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Meat, and a Bishop | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...balding pate, Nathan Gedaliah Richman is the kind of executive that Richman workers think is tops. They like the way he sheds the coat of his $22.50 suit on hot days and goes into the cafeteria (lunch 18? to 22?) with his gold watch chain gleaming across his comfortable paunch. They like their 36-hour, five-day week, which they have had for six years. They like the immemorial company custom by which an officer of the firm stands at the front door of the plant to say good morning to them individually each day and to wave to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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