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When it was over, the guest of honor, a fat, button-nosed oldster who is regarded by his cronies as the spit & image of Jiggs, hustled back to work. George McManus was a little worried at taking two hours for lunch, even if Mr. Hearst was paying the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Gag a Day | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Russia's music is systematically organized-from the mightiest flames of Russian creative inspiration down to the lowliest tuba spit valve. A Soviet bureau called Glavnoe Musicalno Pravelenya (Glavmus for short) spends over 6,000,000 rubles a year ($1,200,000) keeping Soviet composers well-fed and commissioning them to write operas and symphnies. It even runs a "composers' country house" at Ivanovo, about 100 kilometers from Moscow, where all good Russian composers go in the summertime. One of Russia's top composers, Armenian-born Aran Khachaturian, calls it "an institution for the production of masterpieces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer, Soviet-Style | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Basic to Maneuvers. The Army proposes to start with nine weeks of basic training-hygiene and sanitation, enough spit & polish to make a presentable soldier, enough marching and drilling to put on a presentable parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conscription's Pattern | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...French at passing girls; they giggled, and swept on. Wearily he jerked his, thumb towards the hilltop graveyard on the edge of town. He said: "My division liberated this joint. A lot of the boys from the 79th are lying up there. And for what? To have these people spit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Autumn Story | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 24, 1945 | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

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