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...Beginning. As one of seven children of a Spokane, Wash, accountant, Bing's earliest leanings were towards having fun. Pleasant and easygoing, he liked to swim at Mission Park on hot days or whack around the Downriver golf course with his rusty, secondhand clubs. His vague goal was the law, which he leisurely studied at nearby Gonzaga University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Groaner | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

...Civil Aeronautics Board itself. In its analytical report of the crash of a United Air Liner on Bountiful Peak, northeast of Salt Lake City, last November (TIME, Nov. 17), CAB frankly admitted the probable cause of the accident: the Salt Lake City radio range going out of whack before United's veteran pilot, Howard Fey, started to let down through a snowy overcast. More, CAB cited a miserable record of neglect, indecision and ignorance by its employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Confession | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...looked at its like since the days of Boudoir." Broadway audiences continually wonder how so many flops get produced. One reason: even the best producers make mistakes. Another was suggested fortnight ago in Variety, by Producer Oscar Serlin (of the hit comedy Life With Father). He took a lusty whack at a "racket" which has brought many a dollar from angels to sharp Broadway showmen. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Floproducers | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick up the fin end of the bomb, whack it sharply on the ground and decapitate it. It takes about three minutes properly to extinguish a bomb by the first three methods. The fourth is instantaneous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: FIGHTING THE BLAZEBLITZ | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

Last week the whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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