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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet are going to the dogs. Nine Americans in ten, says the National Association of Chiropodists, have foot disorders.† The chiropodists are unhappy about it, argue that "no matter what your walk of life, your feet have to carry you a long way." To prove it, foot doctors hung pedometers on people in various jobs, tallied their daily mileage. Some totals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Footling Figures | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...bank should satisfy the critical eye of its padrone. It has 3,300,000 depositors, one for every three people in California. Every day 3,000 men & women walk into its multiple lobbies, walk out with loans. Bank of America is still Hollywood's great financial house; last week it had passed over a staggering sum to the new producing company which will film Erich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Giant of the West | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...eleventh hole (Dogwood), Jones hooked into deep trouble. Kibitzer Walter Hagen, along for the walk, advised Bobby: "Take your time at the top of your swing, as you did when you wrecked me and Gene Sarazen. . . . Get lazy again." Jones did, and played the last seven holes in even par. Next day, Bobby edged Byron one stroke with a 72-his best competitive round in a dozen years. But his final score for 72 holes: 302. He finished in 32nd place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: For Masters Only | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

Born. To William Wyler, 42, short, swart director who graduated from bang-bang Westerns to a closer walk with art. (Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Miniver), and Margaret Tallichet Wyler, 30, almost Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind: their third child, first son; in Hollywood. Name: William Jr. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...travel restrictions lures a middle-aged man back to the seashore resort which he visited as a boy and in which he had been fascinated by a restless widow much older than he and now long since dead. In a story called Mysterious Kor, a pair of young lovers walk through bomb-torn London in the moonlight ("London looked like the moon's capital-shallow, cratered, extinct"), eventually go up to the flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Climate of War | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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