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...threatened to go on forever. Like most movies that are built on the theory that four stars are better than one, Boom Town is not so much a picture as a series of personal appearances. Stripped to a suit of balbriggan underwear in one scene, Clark Gable reveals a paunch. Fully clothed throughout, Hedy Lamarr still reveals nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...thin man's thoughtful eyes were tired, his scanty hair disordered on his pallid skull. His bony shoulders drooped like a weary farmer's, his little paunch sagged in the baggy white trousers that flapped inches short of his ankles. Harry Hopkins was tired, but he was happy, happy as he could be. Constantly he smiled; often his short barking laugh broke out. The long, tortuous road to a Third Term was nearly past its next-to-last milestone; the Democratic Convention was being held in his bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: By Acclamation | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...with causes of death, he is regarded by many laymen as a great viewer-with-alarm. He publishes a series of creepy pamphlets every month begging motorists not to drive more than 35 miles an hour (he never speeds himself), warning middle-aged men of the dangers of a paunch, telling landlubbers to stay out of small boats. As every policyholder knows, one of the most dangerous places in the world is a bathroom. But Dr. Dublin has an answer even for that one-an article called "How to Take a Bath and Live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Statistician | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...solid, imperturbable, he sat at his desk with an air of utter confidence-the alert, nonchalant confidence of a skilled worker moving swiftly in a routine task. The crushing responsibilities of 1940 he wore as familiarly, as easily as his speckly seersucker suit, buttoned into thick wrinkles over his paunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Prelude to History | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...Giovanni Martinelli for his own raiment of deer skins and knightly robes. He washes himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar and trundles down to the wings, where the waiting Kleinchen inspects him from top to toe, sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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