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...high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke his two harvest hands: 36-year-old Harold Robb and 18-year-old Fay Everett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Frank Anderson's Wheat | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

James Hampden Robb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class of 1921 Assembling for 25th Reunion Listed | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

This week, as it must to all news magazines, error came to 22-year-old, usually correct TIME. Said TIME [Oct. 15]: "Inez Robb was air-dizzy from high-flown metaphors. Wrote she: 'The world is shrinking like a pair of red flannels in a spring rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...Almanac's first 54 years its proprietor was Robert Bailey Thomas, a Massachusetts stationer. For its last five, it has belonged to 45-year-old Robb Sagen-dorph, a tall (6 ft. 4 in.) Harvardman ('22) who lives rustically at Dublin, N.H. During the war, while he worked for the Office of Censorship, he kept his hardy perennial going by working on it nights and Sundays. It was worth his while: the 1946 print order is for 450,000 copies, almost double its previous printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Twilight, Length of | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...straining Hearst press gave its reporter a daily headline play (INEZ ROBB PLANE FORCED DOWN), but editors generally lost interest in the flight before it got past Africa. Said Washington Post Publisher Eugene Meyer: "It's nothing like Nellie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: What's News Now? | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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