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...last time I saw Gary was on the old studio steps. It was Saturday afternoon. He wanted to know how he could get $10. I told him to go down to Santa Monica and collect the customary $10 deposit on an ad he had sold to a washing machine company. This $10 was his commission. Away he went. I have never seen him since except on the screen. I don't believe I have ever missed one of his pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 31, 1941 | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Bradford accused the mayor and Mannos of undertaking a two million dollar building program when the former entered office in 1938 as "a means of setting up a method to collect" from each engineer and architect "one-third of the fees received." These fees totaled about $120,000, giving Lyons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGISLATOR ACCUSES MAYOR LYONS OF DEMANDING SHARE OF CONTRACTS | 3/12/1941 | See Source »

Thanks to his superiors' protests to Washington, Private Earl last week got cheering news: within another week, he was advised, he might collect five months' pay, return to the rolls of the New Jersey regiment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: Soldier's Pay | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Nature Painter | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

...talks on desired subjects. Quick to publicize the German offer was the U. S. press. The Manhattan tabloid PM, which mortally hates & fears Adolf Hitler only a little more than it does Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, exhorted its readers to take advantage of the Nazis by insulting them collect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Berlin Laughs Last | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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