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...bread-bowis fly at woeful rate...

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Harvard Food: Porridge, Plum Cake, Ptomaine | 3/19/1954 | See Source »

...Nina Palmquist Meyers, a young widow with a six-year-old son, James. In addition to James, who was adopted and given the Warren name, they have two sons, Earl Jr., 23, and Robert, 18, and three photogenic daughters, Virginia, 25, Dorothy, 22, and Nina Elizabeth ("Honey Bear"), 19. Woeful California Democrats used to say: "You can beat Earl Warren, but how can you beat that family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: EARL WARREN, THE 14th CHIEF JUSTICE | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...Except on potatoes, where OPS ceilings had helped create a woeful shortage and black market. Last week, after the Senate demanded it, OPS abandoned its potato ceilings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Fair & Warmer | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...stuck for an ending" to her woeful tale, Lana is near a legal separation from her third husband, Millionaire Bob Topping, playboy tinplate heir. But like any Hollywood heroine, Lana can always count on a happy turning in the script. Last week Hollywood gossips reported her moving into a romantic closeup with a tall, dark and handsome Latin named Fernando Lamas. Says Lana: "I am quite sure that around the corner there is something good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Life of a Sweater Girl | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

A.M.A. delegates heard blunt words from an outspoken Navy surgeon recently returned from Korea. There, said Captain Eugene R. Hering, "Our woeful lack of military surgeons has again been demonstrated . . . Our greatest weakness [is] the lack of medical officers who are psychologically prepared, physically toughened, professionally capable and sufficiently aware of the military aspect of any given campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Cold Sweat | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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