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...with his job was to make himself socially objectionable. He expanded his mustache (a fixture on & off from his 19th year) to a full beard, wore dirty brown corduroy suits, bought a yellow chow dog to ride beside him in his bathtub-sized yellow Renault roadster. He became socially unsought-after. A Hollywood urchin finally shamed him out of it with the old standby: "Get a horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: War Drama | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...beard Basil Zaharoff with tips from The Beyond, josh Hermann Goring, rip off a bit of Beethoven for "Adi" Schicklgruber, rescue a beautiful Social Democrat from "Naziland" and an intrepid young Briton from the Spanish Fascists. He can carom all over "this old continent" (Europe) in his high-powered roadster, keeping dates with the major crises of his time, without for a moment losing the reader's interest and sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Floor Show | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Whether your car is the latest sports roadster or a 1904 motorcycle, if you plan on using it in the future you must register during the next three days at one of the Cambridge schools for the first card in the Eastern seaboard gas rationing program, it was announced yesterday by the local rationing board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAS BOOKS TO BE GIVEN OUT | 5/12/1942 | See Source »

Gene Tierney, 20, Hollywood's shapely Tobacco Roadster, and Count Oleg Cassini, 28, who was divorced last year by Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, patent-medicine heiress, eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., and married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Coups d'état are familiar features of the Iraqi political landscape. Sportive, fast-driving, ham Radioperator King Ghazi I survived three. Since 1939 when Ghazi wrapped roadster and self around an electric-light pole, Iraq's ruler has been his son, King Feisal II, a sloe-eyed moppet of five. Regent has been Faisal's Anglophile uncle, weak-chinned Prince Abdul Illah. In 1940, Prince Abdul Illah quashed one would-be Army coup by seizing the Iraqi telephone service and rusticating two uppity generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Trouble in Paradise | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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