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Opening day was so hot (104°) that three contestants stripped to the waist in the middle of the round. But hotter than the weather was blond, sun-bronzed Jimmy Clark, a 20-year-old aircraft worker from Long Beach, Calif. He shuffled around Spokane's hilly, pine-fringed Indian Canyon golf course in 64 strokes, seven under par. Next day he shot 71 for a qualifying total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scorcher | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...months ago a remarkable new character appeared on the stage. Blond, blue-eyed, young (32) Dr. Werner Karl Gabler is a Zurich-born Swiss who is also a New Dealer. He has been in the U.S. about five years, taken out his first papers, once served as ghost writer to the late philanthropic Edward A. Filene, became well known in Washington as economist-lobbyist for the liberal American Retail Federation. Suddenly, at the suggestion of the Swiss Minister (whose wife is Henry Wallace's sister), Gabler was offered a new retainer: the I. G. Chemie. His assignment: to negotiate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHEMICALS: Who Owns Aniline? | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Blond, dapper John L. Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, told newsmen that these tax certificates will probably come in denominations starting at $1 or $5, will bear interest (probably 2%) in the form of a discount, like defense bonds. Treasury officials said the certificates will not be transferable or subject to use as collateral for bank loans. Thus banks and private investors will not be able to buy in quantity for investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Pay As You Go | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...This time they varied somewhat the play acting that goes with standard Nazi infiltration. Instead of the usual hocus-pocus about being "tourists," they assumed new roles. A large number were reported to have debarked at Beirut from a hospital ship as fake-wounded, bandaged, limping and laughing. Others, blond, husky, erect, entered via Turkey under bogus passports as refugee Rumanian Jews, their suitcases marked with large Js. At Aleppo, German officers were strutting about in shorts, apparently made up as sportsmen. It seemed there they were also miming French pilots. A group of French fighters which brought down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: The Syrian Show Begins | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Shortly to be transferred to a new branch office in Chicago is Graham Hutton, blond, 36-year-old ex-editorialist of the London Economist, well known to U.S. lecture audiences. Expected to follow him to the U.S. is David Bowes Lyon, the Queen's brother. Strongly resembling the Queen, handsome, intelligent, good-humored Bowes Lyon made his name for efficiency and helpfulness as press officer of the Economic Warfare Ministry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Information in Britain | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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