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Private Lives. In Wilmington, Del., Mrs. Olive Robertson complained to a judge that she had caught her husband kissing the blonde who had been sleeping in the Robertsons' bed with them because of the housing shortage. She won $16 a week support. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Florence P. Wagner complained that her husband had introduced friends to her while she was taking a bath. She won a divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...annual Lampoon fire was held last night at 10:44 P.M. J. Robertson Ward, head of the House of Ibis, presided at the ceremony, held during the course of a conference purportedly called for the purpose of plotting the recapture of Leros, lost recently by the British. Just what the hell anyone wants with an island populated by queer women was not explained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haul Out the Fire Hose, The 'Poon's Done It Again | 12/3/1943 | See Source »

United Pressman Webb Miller, the New York Herald Tribune's Ralph Barnes and Ben Robertson, Associated Pressmen Edward Crockett and Ben Miller, the New York Times's Byron Darnton, International News Service's Jack Singer, Acme Newspictures' Carl Thusgaard, Mutual Broadcasting System's Frank Cuhel, TIME'S Melville Jacoby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Memoriam | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

When the ice went out in the Donjek, the White, the Robertson, the Johnson, the Duke and the Beaver, it took most of the timber bridges with it. Then the rains sluiced down. In some places The Road melted into the tundra. From April 15 until last week, there was no through traffic between Whitehorse and Fairbanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMUNICATIONS: The Road | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...insult. . . . I predict that it is the straw that will break the back of the unfair and inequitable wages and prices camel of the Government." The speaker was the usually conservative David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. His subject: the decision of a special railway emergency board, affecting 400,000 members of his and four other operating railroad unions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Responsibility | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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