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MICHAEL J. QUILL...

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

Hague was so flabbergasted that he could only mutter through his jowls: "I don't know anything about it." Grumbled bat-eared Michael J. Quill, head of the Transportation Workers Union, himself often tagged with a Red label: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hold That Line! | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

Thus, once again I stir from the obscurity of the "behind-the-scenes" life which is a Yeoman's fate, and take up my eager quill. All stray feathers resulting therefrom may be returned to the Navy Office...

Author: By Yeoman RICHARD Brill, | Title: ELECTRONICS SCHOOL | 7/1/1943 | See Source »

Just one more thought before I replace this quill to its rightful position on my insignia. Many thanks to the bride-to-be of Eusign Bailey for keeping him so occupied as to afford tue this very pleasant opportunity of giving literary instead of the usual verbal vent to my impressions. And also-should anyone take particular notice of smoke billowing from the Navy Office, please be assured that the Yeomen therein are not on fire. It is only due to the newly arrived son of Lt. (jg) Kauder who must have been sent with the compliments of the White...

Author: By Ysoman Brill, | Title: Electronics School | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

...which he has filled to the eaves with U.S. antiques, some of them of very dubious authenticity. There, in an attic studio, surrounded by three stripling sons who alternately bawl, play the clarinet and scatter the floor with toy electric train tracks, he works methodically with a crow quill pen because it produces a large variety of thin and thick lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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