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Captain: W. Bruce Richardson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COACHES, CAPTAINS, MANAGERS | 9/21/1940 | See Source »

...after falling down stairs and cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Busy Bodies | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...story frame house on Main Street. He likes weekend trips to Little Washington; sitting on the rail fence in front of Arthur Mayo's office on Main Street and talking politics with the boys; fishing in old clothes at Kitty Hawk and Hatteras with Postmaster Billy Culpepper and Bruce Etheridge of Manteo and Dudley Bagley of Currituck; winning a little change at poker during the long winter nights (there is an undenied story that he roundly shellacked the President at poker during a weekend trip); motoring around the countryside in his three-year-old Buick, talking potato and tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Watchdog | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

VERNON G. BRUCE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Last week George Marshall got down to hard pan. To his office he summoned Brig.General Adna R. Chaffee, who commands the Army's only mechanized brigade; Brig. General Bruce Magruder and Lieut. Colonel Sereno E. Brett, who long have championed tanks in the infantry. Up to now, the mechanized brigade has been a stepchild of the cavalry; tanks have had a secondary place in infantry organization. Result: the U. S. Army has nothing remotely resembling Hitler's armored divisions, up to last week seemed to be moving with dreadful slowness toward getting anything like them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hard Pan | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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