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President Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia, successor to ousted Arnulfo Arias, might well have used the expulsion order to sum up his five weeks of whirlwind reforms. A report to the people from Panama's new, pro-U.S. President last week would have shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Ready for Business | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...gestures and faces Kaye makes are enough to win him a niche in comic pantomime; they shrink to nothing compared with his whirlwind patter, his miraculous doubletalk. Even as he enacted Melody in Four F (written for him by his wife, Sylvia Fine, and Max Liebman), first-nighters suspected that they were seeing the birth of another such theater classic as Robert Benchley's Treasurer's Report, Joe Cook's Four Hawaiians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Nov. 10, 1941 | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Also on Hepburn's whirlwind schedule were a victory luncheon, a slapstick initiation to Manhattan's Circus Saints and Sinners.* Mitch breezed through both of these, then headed back home to Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Big Wind from Ontario | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Sara Delano was quite a catch for James Roosevelt when he wound up his whirlwind courtship and married her in 1880. She was a handsome, hazel-eyed girl of 26, just half James Roosevelt's age. Her father was a tea merchant in the China trade. He was the son of a long line of sea captains descended from Philippe de La Noye, who came to Plymouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of a Lady | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...planemaker Curtiss-Wright (pursuit ships, Wright Whirlwind motors) keeps its taxes a deep secret, but apparently took the middle road. The result: first-half shipments were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mystification | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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