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Many a U.S. crooner, what with wailing and moaning and gnashing of teeth, sings like a man who learned his style in a concentration camp. Robert Clary actually did. He spent three years in Auschwitz and Buchenwald. and whiled away some of the time by singing for his fellow prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Belter | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

On her way to Mexico for a vacation, Rita Hay worth paused in El Paso for repairs to her car, whiled away the time reading a book she had brought along. The title: How to Have a Successful Marriage.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

In Nevada, Rita Hay worth whiled away the first of her six-week divorce residence by reading, among other books, Power Through Constructive Thinking and A Guide to Confident Living.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Alarums & Excursions | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

Vocational Training. In Salt Lake City, officials learned that Forger Mearle L. Markely had whiled away his year in state prison by printing up bogus checks in the prison print shop.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

In 1872, as any 15-year-old might, Walter Smith whiled away the monotony of a long church service at Britain's Windsor by chatting in furtive whispers with two kindred spirits in the same pew.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Double Take | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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