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Last week Kenneth Farrand Simpson, 45, had had his first 23 days as Congressman from Manhattan's silk-stocking district. He had started briskly: he offered a substitute measure for the President's Lend-Lease Bill, along the lines of Wendell Willkie's suggestions, limiting the Presidential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Defeat | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

The Aldriches live in a penthouse, filled with Gertie's English accumulations, near Fifth Avenue in the Fifties. In former years Gertie was given to poker, backgammon, sewing, knitting, swimming, golf. Suddenly invited into a hole-in-one tournament in San Francisco in 1938, she kicked off her high-heeled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Gertie the Great | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Today all that remains in the U. S. of the dwindling sport of racquet walking are 42 snowshoe clubs and 2,300 addicts, scattered through Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts. These hardy survivors, impregnable against the avalanche of skiing enthusiasm that has swept New England, still meet every year for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Raquetteurs | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

> Ann Yearsley, "the Poetical Milk-Woman of Bristol," who succeeded the "Poetic Washerwoman of Peterfield." While collecting slops for her pigs from the kitchen of a bluestocking, Ann one day let slip that she wrote. The Blue-stocking Club rechristened her "Lactilla." No lady, Lactilla too had to be dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Noble Savage | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Three eagle-eyed boys standing six twp in their stocking feet and two short but swift and steady guards are the mainstays of a Freshman quintet which coach "Skip" Stahley conservatively calls a better than average" aggression. With a four game record possessing only a single setback, and that by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 1/8/1941 | See Source »

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