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...Stove and range buyers should put 20% down, pay off the balance within a year (present: 5% down, 24 to 36 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Credit Suggestion | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Ralston's postmistress. In summer she made out all right. Then winter came. Mrs. Groenewegen donned her woollies, put on a coat and overshoes. An icy blast swept in through rifts in the ancient clapboard walls, and the floor was none too solid. Mrs. Groenewegen installed an oil stove with three burners, to help the old potbellied stove. Said she dourly: "The place is well ventilated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Miserable Postmistress | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...exclude humor. A good time is his ideal, whether on the platform at Harvard or in the catacombs of Rome. A messy desk and a baggy suit are the first steps to scholastic success. He prides himself on the library so swelling that it over-flows onto the kitchen stove. Life for him is a succession of research, lectures, writing and travel. He must, in his own words, "walk just fast enough forward so as not to run backwards, Righto...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/27/1941 | See Source »

Never averse to stealing a scene (or a hot stove, some say), Comic Oakie, who is beginning to look more and more like an American Indian, easily walks off with The Great American Broadcast. That is no feat. One tuneful ditty, I Take to You, some tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...favorites were still far behind. In the National League the Reds were in next-to-last place (with only one victory in five games), the Dodgers were fourth, and the Giants, brusquely brushed off as a second-division team in last winter's Hot Stove League, were out in front with five victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Play Ball | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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