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Amorous, ambitious Devon Elliott has rocketed from a shelf of cosmetic stink pots in a cheap Greenwich Village rented room to the ownership of Devonshire House, a cosmetic corporation whose function is thinking up things that women didn't know they desperately needed. Devonshire House has branches in 13 cities. Devon has her claws in several men. Man No. 1 is Tim Wainwright, Devon's husband, Devonshire House's chief concocter of the high-priced goos that pay for the Wainwrights' East River house. Tim is an Iowa farm boy not only in build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lay That Pistil Down, Babe | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...best promoters in captivity, are going to applaud you to the skies. But the Hereford boys with over 200,000 new registrations are going to tear the Time & Life Building to pieces. The Shorthorn breeders, 50,000 registrations, will start their own blitz to be joined by the Devon, Polled Hereford and Red Polled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Wanted. In England's New Statesman and Nation appeared a want ad: "People sharing with Siamese cat modernized 18th Century Devon house seek others for pacifist life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 27, 1942 | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...HOOK OR CROOK-R. A. J. Walling-Morrow ($2). Good, conventional English slaughter in Devon, where old tin mines look like the money motive and Bunter's Pond the mortuary. Detective: the gentlemanly Philip Tolefree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in February, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

...wrote the great Goethe in his poetic memoirs, describing a trip through the forest which Germans call Black. Last week other travelers saw this forest, travelers from the fruitful fields of Kent, from tight little hills of the Cotswolds, from the broad sweep of Devon and Yorkshire moors. To these men the forests had a grisly attraction. These travelers were R. A. F. bomber crews, flying on one of the most extraordinary missions of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Fall Planting | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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