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Some results of New York City's bitter brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Division Among Democrats | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...Daddy") Wood, believing that "the mother in the home is the key to future civilization," had gathered some 500 housewives and professionals (psychiatrists, teachers, et al,) for a three-day forum on The American Woman and Her Responsibilities. But Daddy Wood's family gathering turned into a family brawl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Razzberries for Housewives | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...take her home with him. The hired hand was husky, hard-drinking Tom Lincoln. When the trader's wife objected to having an unmarried expectant mother under her roof, the trader gave Tom $15, a mare and a mule, to take Nancy away and marry her. After a brawl over the fee, the marriage was performed on June 12, 1806. Judge Alley is not positive of Abe's birthplace or the date. He strongly suspects the child saw the marriage ceremony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Nancy Hanks's Son | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Gypsy wrote every word of The G-String Murders herself, between shows. Nobody else could have. Two bitchy strip queens are murdered with their own G-strings in a Manhattan burlesque house. The cast: chorines, strippers, comedians, gangsters, impresarios, doorman. The scenes include a drunken backstage brawl to celebrate the installation of new blue plumbing in the ladies' room, and a touching moment in jail, after a raid, when one strippeuse douses her bra in the cold sink water as the only available substitute for the ice with which she usually firms her breasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Publicity | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...years after Provident was opened, Dr. Williams* made it famous. For there he performed the first successful heart operation in medical history: he took three stitches in the heart of a man who was stabbed in a brawl. Yet he still worked 18 hours a day, sterilized water in an old wash boiler, scrubbed the walls and floor of the operating room every night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: From Gin to Gastroscope | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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