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...collection of primitive music survived a shipwreck and an automobile smashup before it was brought home by a footloose family-bronzed, youngish Bruce and Sheridan Fahnestock, and their plump, jolly mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...shop on his way to work, buys a Talisman rose for his buttonhole. Magnificently mustachioed, he drives city editors to despair. They say anybody can walk into Grover Hall's office and persuade him not to run an unpleasant story about a suicide or an automobile smashup. Sometimes he carries a hot news tip around for days without thinking to tell the city desk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grandma Married | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...HEADLESS LADY-Clayton Rawson-Putnam ($2). Merlini, magician, can't let circuses or murders alone. Visiting the Hannum Bros. show, he starts to prove the owner's fatal car smashup a homicide. Then State troopers find a decapitated brunette in his own car. Lots of Big-Top jargon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Murders | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...Yves Mirande, director of many a gay French cinema comedy, had a motoring smashup in Mâcon, France, was treated for his injuries by the Doctors Denis pére et fils. Recently Doctor Jean and Son Raymond took their lawyer to see Une Petite Fortune, a new Yves Mirande film in which a village doctor gets the local mayor to remove warning signs from a dangerous crossroads, waxes rich patching up motorists when they crash. "Libel!" roared the lawyer, and Director Mirande was promptly sued by Denis pére et fils. "My film is a pure fantasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Pefite Fortune | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Author Saint Exupéry, who fought his way through a 150-mile cyclone off the Argentine coast; survived a smashup at 175 m.p.h. in the Libyan desert (on his Paris-Saïgon flight), was rescued in time's nick after a 350-mile trudge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Breed | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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