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Also on French soil last week was Britain's Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood. He bustled through the base fields, interviewed pilots who had seen action, said bonjour to one of their landladies by way of improving international relations. Correspondent William Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Bearskins at Home | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Barring the possibility of a soggy field which would give mudder Bill Hutchinson just the chance he is looking for, Coach Blaik has no real blitzkrieg for Stadium spectators tomorrow. He has no single back on whom he can depend to provide the lightning thrust; no one on whom the...

Author: By D. D. P., | Title: What's His Number? | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

Under gray skies and on a soggy field, Ruffing had his final test workout today and afterwards told manager Joe McCarthy, "I'm ready."

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/4/1939 | See Source »

Although only Packard had announced its prices at last week's end, price cuts below 1938's levels were likely to be made in other lines. Last spring, when the steel industry was bogged down in a soggy market (TIME, May 8), it pulled its production rate out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: 1940 Models | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Contrary to the general impression that Billy Phelps likes everything and everybody (barring some modern novelists), he protests that he has at least a dozen prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humanities' Playboy | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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