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...mild argument with a cop, he read: "Fitzgerald Knocks Officer This Side of Paradise." It was a life which passed incessantly "through strange doors into strange apartments, with intermittent swings in taxis through the soft nights. . . . We were one with New York, pulling it after us through every portal. Many who were not alcoholics were lit up four days out of seven. . . . Frayed nerves were strewn everywhere. . . . The hangover became a part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Jazz Age | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

Vanliners, Airvans. The third-generation growth of Bekins of Los Angeles is typical of the expansion of other Los Angeles businesses. The four companies spend $250,000 yearly on advertising. Householders now use Bekins "vanliners" (large enough to carry 14 rooms of unpacked furniture cross-country) and "portal vans" (detachable from trucks for hoisting aboard ocean liners). When the Government evicted the West Coast Japanese in 1942, Bekins moved more than 60% of them to relocation centers. When the Ninth Service Command moved lock & stock from San Francisco to Salt Lake City, Bekins handled most of the job. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moving Family | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...under one roof in Britain. Impeccable Anthony Eden was there, and Mr. & Mrs. Clement Atlee. Viscount Camrose received in the royal box, along with Viscount Trenchard, president of the American & British Commonwealth Association. Viscount and Viscountess Simon came in, also Sir Andrew and Lady Cunningham, Sir Charles and Lady Portal, Sir Alan and Lady Brooke. The U.S. was represented by Ambassador John G. Winant, and its soldiery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Greatest Power | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

When the Cambridge Antiquarian Society got to work, they found that they had stumbled onto woodwork from the portal to the Old Chapel of Elizabethan days; the chapel where John Harvard worshipped and received his degree. Samples of the wood were kept, but it wasn't until 1936 that T. S. Hele, Master of Emmanuel College, realized the meaning of the wood to Harvard and brought it along with him to the Tercentenary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORIC OAKEN BLOCK VIEWED JOHN HARVARD | 9/29/1944 | See Source »

...fashioned business of attacking the mine owners. (Ray Edmundson had fled town, unable even to gain a seat.) The operators heard that, at next spring's contract negotiations, U.M.W. would want the same pay for a 35-hour week which it is now getting for 40 hours-with portal-to-portal time included at regular rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Brethren, Follow John L. | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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