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Crime Underpays. In Boston, Michale Kostecki lost his piano to ambitious burglars who lowered it three flights, moved it to a secondhand store, sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

Jackie Coogan, onetime boy cinemactor, ex-glider trooper, set up as a secondhand dealer in planes, reported that he had already bought 35 surplus ships from the U.S. and resold them to private customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Visions | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

General Dwight Eisenhower will be heard from, at secondhand, from his old friend and aide, Navy Captain Harry C. Butcher, onetime CBS vice president. Last week the Saturday Evening Post bid $175,000, highest price of the war, for serial rights to the war diary which Harry Butcher wrote from North Africa to the Rheims surrender, photographed on microfilm, and kept in a safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Golden Words from Brass Hats | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Poorhouse Boy also was written with a purpose-to help the paupers -and its early chapters bear a secondhand resemblance to Oliver Twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holy Horatio | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...Yale, where 1,900 V12 students are stationed, the show was a must for all trainees. To the rest of the U.S., it promised as close a secondhand view of war as most civilians are likely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Closeup of War | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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