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...Manhattan lawyer who once stood on his head in front of the Metropolitan Opera House, had at some of his former cronies in another of his privately famed, privately printed brochures-this one as a Christmas throwaway. Title of this year's effort: Our Friends and Relatives All Stink, or Just Awearyin' for You. He reported happily that he had induced his ex-wife (Dorothy, daughter of the late Lewis Cass Ledyard Jr.) "to spend $2 on me for every $1 she spends on herself. . . . I am just not happy unless I have lots and lots of money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Winners . . . | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...enemy shoots your toe, you shoot his head." A soldier must be "anxious to work bodily destruction upon the foes of his country." Japan's war leaders are malevolent, uncivilized men. Their murder of the Doolittle flyers was an action which made "the name of the Japanese Army stink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: What Are We Fighting For? | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Amorous, ambitious Devon Elliott has rocketed from a shelf of cosmetic stink pots in a cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13 cities. Devon has her claws in several men. Man No. 1 is Tim Wainwright, Devon's husband, Devonshire House's chief concocter of the high-priced goos that pay for the Wainwrights' East River house. Tim is an Iowa farm boy not only in build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

Stop calling the American worker "complacent," and allow him to buy a roast of beef every week. Throw some chloride of lime on the stink in Washington, and the nation will get its 100% production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1943 | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...know the smallness of my voice and the tiny stink of all our journalistic voices repeated wonder if any words of mine could matter much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stark Young, Painter | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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