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Gardner was selling pianos when he met Shirley Booth at a friend's house. His opening was typical: "Little girl, you need awakening." She replied that apparently he needed sleep. They were soon married. Mrs. Gardner joined a stock company in Springfield, Mass., and her husband sold miniature golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New York Hick | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

The Jan. 25 issue of TIME arrived in yesterday's mail, and the main topic of conversation last night was the coal strike in Pennsylvania. We decided that we would like the following message conveyed to Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

In Kansas City, day before the story was to be made public, reporters heard bartenders, waiters whisper: "The President's in Africa, you know." In San Francisco one newsman was told of the President's trip by a stranger on a trolley. A Detroit reporter was flabbergasted when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Casablanca Story | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Thick-chested Oscar Servaczgo, striking Wilkes-Barre anthracite coal miner, sat in his kitchen talking to Philadelphia Record Reporter Johnston D. Kerkhoft. Suddenly a telephone call brought him stunning news. One of his two Navy sons had been killed in the Pacific. Servaczgo burst out: "I ain't a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: John Lewis Fights a Strike | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

Engineer Mencken begins with Arthur Gooch, hanged in 1936 for violation of the Lindbergh kidnapping law, and works back along the rope to the Haymarket anarchists; to Charles Julius Guiteau, who shot President Garfield; to the Molly Maguires, the Irish miners who terrorized the Pennsylvania coal fields; to John Wilkes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Necktie Party | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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