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Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After 2,304 Years | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

At this point Judge Willis asked: "Just what, off the record, are they talking about?"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After 2,304 Years | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Homestretch. Lyter Donaldson, the likely primary victor, will have tougher going in November. His competition will be grey-haired Republican Simeon S. Willis, 63, a corporation lawyer and former judge. Republicans are hopeful that Kentucky is going G.O.P., that Willis will become the State's first Republican Governor since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: As Goes Kentucky | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

These attacks were called "warmups" by Major General Willis H. Hale, commander of Hawaii's Seventh Air Force, who promised more attacks in this new Army theater. Said he: "Right now we are building up to a campaign . . . [of] repeated small raids or large concentrated attacks, whichever we consider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: New Theater | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

Illegal. In Florida's Supreme Court, Willis Abram Briggs, who said he had fallen ill as a result of a fleabite, lost his fight for workmen's compensation because he had felt the flea bite him but had not actually seen it happen.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1943 | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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