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...hotel boot boy. Next morning he arose especially early to catch the "boots" and congratulate him. "How did you ever learn to do it?" he asked. The boots drew himself to attention. "As a matter of fact," he replied in the clipped accents of an ex-Guards officer, "my batman taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: THE STORIES THEY TELL, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Despite the muscling-in operations of Captain Marvel and his ilk, Superman remains champion of radio fantastics. He has even reduced a comic-book rival--Batman--to a subordinate position in the Superman show. Batman is permitted to knock off a minor thug once in a while, and occasionally rescue some imperilled citizen, but he is clearly inferior to Superman. In private life--that is, when Superman becomes "mild-mannered Clark Kent," a newspaper reporter--Batman turns out to be the publisher of the newspaper, but this is just...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: I | 11/17/1948 | See Source »

Curious Wife. Their married life was typical of the officer set-dinners with the colonel, shooting-parties, receptions and balls at the best London houses. But Desmond never let social splendor spoil his sense of kindness. He paid constant visits to a crippled veteran who had been his batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...deer were not quite alone in the strange world of ships, railroads and medical inspection. Someone watched over them. Attending to their simple diet and deerish comfort was one Jenferksen, General Dahl's Lappish batman (see cut). He would stay with them until, after 28 days of quarantine, the deer were exposed to the stares of Zoo-goers-a token of Norway's gratitude for Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Deer & Men | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

...Cigar. In France, an R.C.A.F. batman examined a shell fragment that landed in the dugout beside him, found that the serial number on it was exactly the same as the number on his own identification...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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