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Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...August 4 he overtook Senator William B. Allison of Iowa, who served 35 years, from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Curtains for Cotton Ed | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Married. Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wal let, 23, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's comic-strip character be loved by millions; and Nina Clock, 22, his boyhood sweetheart; both for the first time; in Gasoline Alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

General Motors' Allison division at Indianapolis announced that it was all ready to produce an engine in the 3,000-h.p. class. Unlike the air-cooled engine builders, who range their cylinders around a crankcase like the spokes of a wheel, Allison turns out liquid-cooled (Prestone) engines with cylinders in banks. The familiar Allison is a V-type, like the famed Rolls-Royce or the twelve-cylinder engine of a Packard motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: W for Power | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Allison went from "V" to "W" for more power. Its new engine has four banks of six cylinders each, is twice as big as the "V" engine which powers the P-38 Lightning, some P-51 Mustangs, the P39 Airacobra and some P-40 Warhawks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: W for Power | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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