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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year after he wrote this lyric, William Guggenheim, 72, maverick brother of the copper tycoons, wrote a last will & testament that was even cornier. The will left nothing to his wife and child, split his $1,000,000 estate (Broadway's estimate) equally among four women-all his "protegees" at the time of his death last June. The protégées: Lillyan Andrus (Miss America of '29), Mildred Borst (Miss Connecticut of '30), Marialyce Rice, a Texas-born Ziegfeld beauty. The fourth beneficiary: his secretary, Florence Sullivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 4, 1941 | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...advise you to read from the Old Testament of the Bible, the Book of Daniel, Chapter 5, Verse 5, that is Chapter V, Verse V, and read to the end of the chapter.* Good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Frivolous V | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...aftermath are events that no true Nazis care to contemplate. But last week in Berlin Lieut. General Hobun Yamashita, head of Japan's military mission to the Axis powers, let it be known that the Führer had suggested that in his last will and testament he would instruct the German people "to bind themselves eternally to the Japanese spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In the Event of Death | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...stressed the "orthodoxy" and "genuineness" of his Presbyterianism. Dr. Coffin's supporters praised him for making Manhattan's Union Seminary (which left the Presbyterian fold in the 'gos when the General Assembly suspended Professor Charles Augustus Briggs from the ministry for "liberal" interpretations of the Old Testament) a school of vital evangelical theism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Presbyterians' Moderator | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...Deacons' Testament, which will be on the newsstands on June 5,is expected to sell like 5c cigars when people learn that it uncovers the true story behind Snooperman, the mysterious genius who has reversed more than 100,000 books during his brilliant career. The Testament has all the dope--pictures of Snooperman in the act, a full story of how libraries hermetically sealed were broken into, and an editorial entitle. "What are we going to do about it?" Dick Lane, the editor, with a loyal staff of underlings, has seen to it that the Testament has complete coverage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 5/21/1941 | See Source »

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