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...cursed with absentee ownership. Only one deep-sea shipowner was left in the New England city that once was the greatest port on the North American continent. Labor troubles, management troubles had to be handled laboriously through agents and middlemen. No major trunk railroads gave the port a tinker's damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghost Port | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...generals, two rear admirals), delegates saluted each other with five outstretched fingers, representing five of their old boys who had made good: General George Marshall (V.M.I.), General Douglas MacArthur (Texas M.I.), Captain Arthur Wermuth, the "one-man army" in Bataan (Northwestern Academy), Pearl Harbor Air Commander Clarence Tinker (Wentworth), Captain Colin Kelly (Marion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boom in Military Schools | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...general public . . ." said General Johnson, "simply does not seem to give a tinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, THE PEOPLE: Smug, Slothful, Asleep? | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...Hawaiian Air Force Commander, Brigadier General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, a spit-&-polish, sky-ripping flight officer, part Osage Indian (Oklahoma), flyer since 1920, chief of Third Interceptor Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Shake-Up | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Accomplice in Hutson's recent robberies has been red-headed left halfback Cecil Isbell (Purdue '38), one of the slickest passers in the game. Since they teamed up. Isbell-to-Hutson has become to football what Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance once was to baseball. This season, completing 117 passes in 206 attempts (for a gain of nearly a mile), Green Bay's Isbell has put Washington's "Slingin' Sammy" Baugh in the shade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Isbell-to-Hutson-to-Title? | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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