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...Dobbin Succumbs. Young Ernie, nicknamed "Shag" for his pinkish, shaggy hair, was a born listener. Too small and bashful to play much with the other kids, he liked to sit around and hear the grown ups talk. What he heard he remembered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ernie Pyle's War | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...four years Marshall Field has poured more than $10,000,000 into his papers: New York City's pinkish PM, the New Dealish Chicago Sun and the politically colorless syndicated Sunday supplement Parade. This week he was getting a few tiny drops in return. Parade, least talked about but most widely read, was the first Field publication to go into the black. (Field's reported investment is $1½ millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Parade to the Black | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Woman of Faith. Alexandra Mihailovna (as Russians call her) grew up in a setting lifted straight from Turgenev. She married a cousin, Vladimir Kollontay, bore him a son and left him, all within three years. She rebelled against the brittle brilliance of St. Petersburg society, dove into the pinkish dawn of social revolution. At 24 the police nabbed her, pink-handed, in an attempt to start a strike among girl textile workers. Her father whisked her abroad. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Madame Ambassador | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

From the condition of the body it was estimated that it had been floating there for several days. Although the hands were dead white, the calves of the legs were of a pinkish color. It had identification, but the Army has not issued an official report of its identity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD STUDENT DISCOVERS DEAD LIEUTENANT IN CHARLES | 1/4/1944 | See Source »

Tall, bespectacled Brendan Bracken, whose hair looks like a pinkish bird's nest, last week met some 100 members of the U.S. press in Manhattan, played an adroit game of ask-me-another. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Britain's Bracken | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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