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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More Fish them Boston. By now it is probably the third biggest city in the U.S. -more than 2,000,000 people live within its far-flung city limits, more than 4,000,000 in its metropolitan area-and it has gotten pinker, more sprawling, more like a Los Angeles promoter's dream with every advancing mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Pink Oasis | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...Chemistry 20: first prize to John Pinker. Second prize to Alfred R. Bader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Awards Go to Eleven Chem Section Men | 5/17/1949 | See Source »

...Augusta Chronicle sent a reporter and a photographer to try for an interview; they were not even allowed out of their car. When the Chronicle's Managing Editor Louis J. Harris tried, the Pinker-tons stopped him 50 feet short of the clubhouse. He yelled for the club's manager, who told him that the General was not to be disturbed and ordered him off the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Spring Vacation | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Public Conqueror | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Died. Adrienne Morrison (real name: Mabel Morrison Bennett Pinker), 57, first wife of Actor Richard Bennett, mother of Cinemactresses Constance, Barbara and Joan Bennett; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A onetime actress herself, she turned literary agent and married Eric Seabrooke Pinker, later her partner, who last year pleaded guilty of misappropriating $20,637 owing to Client E. Phillips Oppenheim and was sentenced to prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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