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Unspoiled by false modesty, Hope says: "I'll tell you what it is; I was born with timing and coordination, and I got seven writers. With their brains and my timing, we can't miss." His three-room office over his garage is packed with such proud possessions as a Jap Zero wing sent him by a Guadalcanal Marine. In England two radio hours are regarded almost as sacred periods, when no interruptions are tolerated: 1) the BBC news broadcasts, 2) Bob Hope's program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Crystal Ball | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...stories told, before his abdication Carol had built a royal hunting lodge costing 150,000,000 lei ($780,000), and stables costing 400,000,000 lei ($2,080,000). In these fantastic barns the walls were lined with mirrors, floors were made of costly faience, each groom had a three-room, electrically heated apartment, the horses themselves stood or lay on expensive mattresses. For her part, Mme. Lupescu had whimsically ordered many buildings in Bucharest torn down simply because she disliked their looks. Before he left Bucharest for a trip to Rome last week Rumania's new dictator, General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Quakes and Carol | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

...holder and an unlighted cigaret in his hand, he emerged smiling like an imp. Through little knots of Capitol tourists he made his way under the rotunda to a small white door marked "To the Dome." clumped down a flight of steps and along a shining corridor, entered a three-room suite which is the only Senator's office remaining in the Capitol building itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Happy Clam | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

Rack went to the Waldorf-Astoria where Dr. Westrick had a three-room suite. There he discovered that Dr. Westrick rarely used it, kept it simply as an office in charge of a handsome young German woman, Baroness Irmingard von Wagenheim. So Rack tried to learn where most of Dr. Westrick's phone calls came from, found that they were coming from a telephone in Scarsdale, N. Y. Up went Rack to suburban Scarsdale and did some more undercover work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A House in Scarsdale | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...Manhattan. Jacob Berman, 52, a native of Minsk, Russia, had for three months given shelter, firewood, candles to two tenants in his condemned three-room flat, at rental of 5? per day. When he developed a sore foot and was unable to go out for wood, they refused to pay rent. Final compromise: the tenants agreed to bring their landlord food, firewood, candles in return for free lodging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fire | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

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