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Helen Hayes, whose playwright husband, Charles MacArthur, slipped in the shower last year and cracked a rib, slipped in the same shower, grabbed at a porcelain grip, broke it, sliced her right forearm ten stitches worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Favorite Brunette (Paramount) is a well-roasted rib of the fancy talk and fancy incident served up by Raymond Chandler and other whodunit authors of the rough & tough school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1947 | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Stew Meat. Once more, housewives were staring their butchers down, taking home stew meat instead of standing rib roasts. There was a sudden demand for buttons-for home sewing. The Sears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Late Spring | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Apparently the political insinuation that Mr. Capp has presented in Li'l Abner was missed by Mr. Killinger. . . . True, Lena the Hyena was undoubtedly created to rib Chester (Dick Tracy) Gould; ah, but Lower Slobbovia was also created, I am sure, to rib a certain country. What more appropriate place than in Foreign News could the item have been placed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1946 | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Choice sirloin and T-bone steaks cost 20? a lb., prime rib roasts 15? a lb., chickens and lobsters 30? apiece. Excellent Haitian coffee was 12? a lb., sugar 6¢:, and there was no limit on anything. As a matter of course, an American household was staffed by five competent servants-houseboy, cook, maid, yardboy and laundress. Total monthly wages: around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: Paradise 1946 | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

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