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...Hall, he flips through correspondence at split-second speed and barks out advice and orders to every point of his realm by long-distance telephone. He drives to work in a 1947 Cadillac. Although he is paid $25,000 a year, he lives modestly in the same five-room Ravenna District bungalow in which he and his wife started housekeeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Herdsman | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Ravenna, Ohio, Ballplayer Harold Hartung dreamed that he was chasing a fly ball, chased it right out his second-floor bedroom window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

After more than five hours, only two contestants were left-14-year-olds Darrell Flavelle and Jean Chappelear. Jean, a blonde eighth-grader in the Ravenna (Ohio) Township School, had been boning up for weeks. She had been taking word lists on her baby-sitting jobs-and even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Toboggan to Psychiatry | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Answers: Henry I of England, Robespierre, shedder, Naphtali, Ravenna,-Ethnikos Laikos Apeleftherotikos Stratos (National Popular Liberation Army), Alexander the Great, Sir Thomas Lawrence, nearly five, Orion, the sparrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Posers at Eton | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Through the ankle-deep mud of the Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALIAN FRONT: Through Muddy Grapevines | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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