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Come On Up--at the Colonial--Mac West must be really hard up--for money--to stoop to this. Still, if you've never seen her in action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Town | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Robertson, closemouthed, stoop-shouldered and almost bald, shies away from the press. He asked for the London job. He was tired from wartime chores, and broke. (His salary will remain the same but his living allowance will be much greater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Right Job for Wrong | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...drab PBY with red star markings landed at Tokyo's Atsugi Airport. Out squirmed a crowd of uniformed Russians and a stoop-shouldered Chinese peering myopically through violet-tinted horn rims. Henry Pu-yi, the perennial puppet, had been fished out of history's dustbin to testify at the trial of the Jap war criminals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Royal Nonentity | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Adolf Hitler, inside & out, according to U.S. Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fundamentals | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

...Ladd. His wife hadn't bothered to send him a "Dear John" letter, so he doesn't know that she's been playing around with a night club operator in his absence. When he does find out, he leaves her, but when she is murdered, he decides to play stoop-tag with the police and get the guy who did it all by himself. This decision gets him involved with several nasty characters and results in his getting sapped, kicked, and shot at all within the space of twenty-four hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 6/25/1946 | See Source »

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