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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merely for ?1 did Australia's uneasy conservative coalition lose power. A. W. Coles, whose vote helped to defeat it, is one of Australia's leading capitalists. Director of a string of "half-crown" stores, he is sometimes called Australia's Woolworth. He has been sharply criticized by Labor and the trade unions many times. But both he and Independent Wilson agree with Labor that the war should be financed with Commonwealth bank credits instead of through the higher-interest-bearing plan proposed by onetime Accountant Fadden (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Change for £1 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...STRING MURDERS-Gypsy Rose Lee-Simon & Schusfer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Publicity | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Gypsy wrote every word of The G-String Murders herself, between shows. Nobody else could have. Two bitchy strip queens are murdered with their own G-strings in a Manhattan burlesque house. The cast: chorines, strippers, comedians, gangsters, impresarios, doorman. The scenes include a drunken backstage brawl to celebrate the installation of new blue plumbing in the ladies' room, and a touching moment in jail, after a raid, when one strippeuse douses her bra in the cold sink water as the only available substitute for the ice with which she usually firms her breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Publicity | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...first-string attack lines up at present it forms a strong, well-knit offensive with sufficient individual talent and a good deal of co-operative team-work. Backed by such reserves as Art Neff, Ernie Staber, Fritz Kempner, and Howie Malloy it presents a formidable line...

Author: By J. ROBERT Moskin, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/10/1941 | See Source »

Another absentee yesterday was second string blocking back Ted Lyman, who was bumped on the leg in Tuesday's scrimmage. There is no statement forthcoming from the doctors as to how serious Lyman's injury is, but third string blocker Davy Goldthwait saw a good deal of action on the first team yesterday, which might indicate that Harlow was planning to use him considerably against the Ithacans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEAM A MAKES BAD SHOWING | 10/9/1941 | See Source »

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