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For the slow-footed railroads this was heady talk. But, for the first time since the last war, they are in a position to mean what they say. By the end of next year according to an Investment Bankers' Association estimate, railroad funded debt will be down to $8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warning to Competitors | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Errol Flynn had more blonde trouble (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq.). Shirley Evans Hassau, long-limbed, curly-locked wife of a singer and mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 25, 1943 | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

Most people expected 77-year-old Bishop William Thomas Manning to bounce up belligerently from his desk in the House of Bishops. For six years Bishop Manning has battled unity, recently dealt it a thudding blow in a sermon at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Episcopalians | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Mosquitoes. A new mosquito repeller, more effective and four to six times as lasting as citronella, was announced by a group of chemists from hard-bitten New Jersey. A military secret known only as "Formula No. 612," it is an inexpensive, colorless liquid without unpleasant odor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemists in Convention | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Fog! Fog! Fog! A year later he was wearing a barrister's white peruke in London. At 55 he had begun a new career. Judges winced at first at his "unpleasant American twang." Ten years later he was acclaimed as "the most famous advocate at the English bar."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Disraeli | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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