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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before William Wrigley Jr. died in his sleep on the morning of Jan. 26, 1932, his long grey-brown mountain in the sea off Southern California (purchase price $3,000,000, improvements $20,000,000) had become a profitable combination of poor man's Nassau and rich man's Coney Island. Last week, when the U.S. Maritime Service opened its second largest training station for merchant seamen on Catalina's crescent-shored Avalon bay, only the shape of the island remained as William Wrigley left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Catalina Converts | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...pushed my sexual parts back out of sight . . . so as to look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Not So Secret Life | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...with our pictures on the front of The Ladies' Home Journal, and articles in Reader's Digest, and our pictures in the local papers-and Mrs. Harry Hopkins doing it-my, my, us poor sore-footed Nurse's Aides find we are morons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Spanish Morocco, at General Dwight Eisenhower's rear, Franco has increased his garrisons from about 135,000 to 180,000 men. Ill-equipped and poor though Spain is, some of the forces in Spanish Morocco are partially mechanized. Many are Moors, who are among the world's best soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Franco and the Rock | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women--the myth is far stronger than the Rheinhardt legend. But the girls that have gone to Radcliffe have always had a pretty good time...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

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