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...stop the rumors and quiet SEC, Graham-Paige hurried out with a statement full of intimate business details. Against the background of rumors, the statement made Joe Frazer, a 210-pounder, feel like a man undressing in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS,RUBBER,ICE,FOOD,OIL: Joe Frazer and Graham-Paige | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely piano pounder in a black turtleneck sweater did not drink much (nor does he to this day, save occasionally, out of politeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Thousand Quid. Few fans bother with such details as the greyhounds' fancy names. An exception is the current idol, Blackwater Cutlet, a small, black 61-pounder from Wimbledon, who gets fan mail. Before races the Cutlet parades with haughty superiority in front of cheering stands who class him with famed Mick the Miller, now immortal and stuffed at Government expense, and Ballynennan Moon, now standing at stud at the record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Dogs Take Over | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...holes in the runway, Geiger walked down to an SBD (Douglas dive-bomber) spotted on the apron, climbed in. Without a single escorting fighter, the Old Man took the SBD off the flight strip, flew north to a village where the Japs were headquartered, dropped his 1,000-pounder, went home. His pilots got the idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Change of Stars | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Composer. Harry Ruby is the Tin Pan Alley prototype of a Horatio Alger hero. Born 48 years ago on Manhattan's East Side, he managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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