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...empire. Six days a week he gets up at 6 a.m., is at the Rouge plant by 8. There, under the wing of Ford's right-hand man, aide-de-camp, shadow and bodyguard, bantam-sized Harry Bennett, young Henry is learning his job. He gets other frequent lessons from Ford's production boss, white-crested Charles E. Sorensen. Henry II puts in a ten-to twelve-hour day, finds little time for golf (he shoots in the nineties) or to take pictures with his six-year-old second-hand camera. Otherwise he has no hobbies, explains : "There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Ford on the Road Back | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Explanations. In Atlantic City, N.J., six-year-old George Patrick McLaughlin of Philadelphia was discovered hiding in a locomotive tender, promptly demanded spinach, explained he was en route to join the Marines and fight the Japs. In Jefferson County, Mo., twelve-year-old Vina Marler Nash, newly married, commented, "It's pretty nice. ... I guess I won't have to go back to school this fall." In Junction City, Kans., Marguerite See, a bus driver, drove with one foot bare, explained, "I can do a smoother job on the clutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...regency would be established. The Filoff government announced the ascension of Boris' son, six-year-old Simeon II. The Bulgarian Army swore fealty to the boy King. Premier Filoff, according to Berlin's radio, summoned the Sobranye to approve a regency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Boris III (1918-43) | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

China's six-year-old war with Japan this week was at its gravest stage since the retreat from Burma a year ago. North of Changsha the Jap had opened a new, three-pronged drive with 50,000 men. Behind this offensive might be a plan to drive toward Chungking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: In the Yangtze Gorges | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Mark's kindly, conventional brother Oscar became a cattle grazier who remembered the lecture of an old combo: "Study the Binghi [aborigine], Oscar, and you'll find he's a different man from you in many ways, but in all ways quite as good." When six-year-old Nawnim, "hardened with food snatched from dogs and salted with sand and ants" was deserted by his father and delivered on Oscar's doorstep, howling and stinking, Uncle Oscar took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Scarlet Plains | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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