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...between New York nightclubs and Mayor LaGuardia's bookkeepers: "At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...that the clubs padded the tax charges on guest checks. At the Stork, the check is usually placed face down on the table, with the total written on the back. Only an outlander who should not be at the Stork Club at all would turn the check over and tot up the bill. If he did, the city contends, he would find that the total had been padded. The club pays the correct tax, then keeps what's left, said the city, to cover "breakage." Mayor LaGuardia, who, unlike ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, never goes to nightclubs, wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: Decor Meets the Law | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

...liveliest in the U.S., pulsing with Arrowsmithian fervor. His graduates have scattered over the earth, today are fighting fungi in Europe, Australia, China, India. Stake's popularity with youngsters is the talk of the campus. Told that her family planned to have steak for dinner, a faculty tot once burst into tears, sobbed: "But I like him. He's nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fungus Fighter | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

Galled and saddened, C.I.O. President Phil Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green manfully renewed their no-strike pledge. John Lewis was mum. Now that the four-month coal battle was temporarily over, he and the nation could tot up the results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Uprising | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

...born, not in Russia, but in London, and her real name is Lillian Alicia Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later, in 1921, she danced her first engagement - as a child prodigy in the traditional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Danseuse Noble | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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