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In 1937 a roly-poly, rubicund Anglican vicar named R. Anderson Jardine felt an urgent spiritual call. In defiance of the Archbishop of Canterbury he married the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield. Later he turned up in Hollywood, earned a living by marrying romantic couples who wanted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Indecency | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

The Brooklyn housewife, one Mrs. Jean Kay, wife of a dentist, mother of two (boy & girl), made the Russell appointment her business because her daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Saved from BeHrand Russell | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

For this turn of affairs the two motor-makers can mostly thank an aging (64), roly-poly, apple-cheeked Swedish immigrant named August Johnson. Hired six months ago to get Graham-Paige off the hook, Executive Vice President Johnson has done the job almost singlehanded. But in Detroit, where motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Low-Pressure Man | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Other utilitymen did not point to it with pride. Utility-baiters called it an octopus. Roly-poly Utilitycoon Howard Colwell Hopson and his partner, John I. Mange, called it Associated Gas & Electric Co.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Lost Balance | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

High & dry on three floors of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace were 115 motorboats, 35 sailboats, skiffs, prize-winning racers, gadgets, motors, motor fuels. Outstanding gadget: The Hazard Tension Meter, a mandolin-style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

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