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Surprise. In St. Louis a man stripped for a physician, bared an abdominal tattoo reading: "Hello Doctor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...weeks ago, while the riveters still rang their tattoo on Massachusetts' steel sides, Rear Admiral Samuel Murray Robinson wrote a memo to his boss on the progress his Bureau of Ships had made. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox was so pleased that he had it fattened out with more facts and figures, gave the memo to the U.S. public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Fantastic Goal | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...fourth, The Kid began to tattoo the champion with lightning-quick pokes. Oldtimers were reminded of onetime Light-Heavyweight Champion Jack Delaney, the "rapier of the north," who used to fight like a twinkle-toed fencer, but The Kid didn't taunt his opponent as much as usual (Said he afterward: "I didn't have so much time to talk. But I talked to him a couple of times. Once I says to him: 'Joe, you're in for a tough night.' And Joe, he says to me: 'Ah knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heartbreaker | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Nova Scotia, Jim Williams was taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant in the shops of Alliance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Cowboy Cartoonist | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...stuck to Maki's heels, moving forward when Maki (coached by Tutor Nurmi, standing stop watch in hand in the infield) moved forward. For 31 laps the Notre Damer and the Finn were so close together that the Miraculous Medal on Rice's chest practically beat a tattoo on Maki's back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pony Express | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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