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Lose a Million. With some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Salesman at Work | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

¶the New York Times's Ford Wilkins, who, after his rescue, reported in the Times's traditional, starched third person that "the writer gained five pounds in 48 hours."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Personal Stories | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

Dear Ruth (by Norman Krasna; produced by Joseph M. Hyman and Bernard Hart) is a sure-fire popular comedy about the young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

200-yard breaststroke--won by J. E. Curtin, Jr., V-12 (H); third, R. S. Wilkins, Jr., V-12 (H).

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HAL ULEN'S CRIMSON MERMEN DROWN WEAK TECH SWIMMERS | 1/11/1944 | See Source »

As every airman knows, it is also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clouds and the War | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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