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Author of the plan is pint-sized, vitriolic Clarence Budington Kelland, G.O.P. National Committeeman from Arizona, longtime fictioneer for the Saturday Evening Post (Sugarfoot, Arizona), onetime tub-thumping isolationist (Pearl Harbor changed his mind). A bitter-end Republican, he caused a rumpus in Manhattan's famed Dutch Treat Club by stating, in May 1940, that the Fifth Column in America was headed "by that fellow in the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: THE KELLAND PLAN | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...patient who vomits a little blood may simply have ruptured a small blood vessel after prolonged retching; if he really has a gastric hemorrhage from ulcer, he is likely to gush a pint of blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hints for Busy Doctors | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Edgar Bergen bought himself a two-cell jail with running water and electric lights. For a $10,000 war bond bid at a Hollywood auction, he acquired the pint-size pokey from a young man who had got it by error for $1.50 at a tax sale (TIME, July 12). Bergen did not say what he was going to do with his plum, which lies in Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...many a big-city newspaperman is a small-town newspaper all his own. For 99%, it remains a dream. One of the one-percenters is Theodore Friend, 45. Last week he gave up his job on the New York Mirror to go west to publish the Lassen Advocate-a pint-sized (cir. 2,100), 78-year-old weekly in Susanville, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Goodby, Broadway | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

This situation was soon remedied by an officer who improvised a pay chit out of an old envelope. With this slip in hand, the half-pint "officer" waited his turn in line and then strode up and presented it to an amazed disbursing officer...

Author: By Ens. ED Lambert, | Title: Three Year Old Wants Navy Pay | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

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