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Today at 58, he is still knife-witted, but illness and study have stooped his shoulders, given him the gentle manner of Mr. Chips. Off the job, his chief interest is the ballet. In 1925 he married a Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. An art collector, a member of the potent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Return of Cassandra | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

One of Lampy's guests at its annual spring dance tonight--although they don't know it yet--will be the young lady who immortalized herself yesterday by referring to Harvard's Funnymen as "dim-witted juveniles with eye-sight corresponding to the length of their hair."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anti-Lampy Propagandist To Invade Poon Tonight | 5/15/1941 | See Source »

¶ May Day was not a holiday in Germany, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's President Getulio Vargas celebrated May Day by treating Good-Will Tourist Douglas Fairbanks Jr. to a 9? lunch at a workers' restaurant. While they ate, loudspeakers blared Emily Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Few weeks ago needle-witted Tom Connally, senior Senator from Texas, blithely predicted that the 1941 tax bill would "just jerk 'em out of their shoes." Although the jerk won't come until March 15, 1942, last week the U.S. and Congress got their first clear look at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: The Hard Way | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Bald, sharp-witted Film Producer Kenneth Macgowan (In Old Chicago, Tin Pan Alley), who took a defense job in Washington last month, learned with dismay that his new title was: Director of Production in the Motion Picture Division of the Office for Coordination of Commercial and Cultural Relations Between the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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