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...through hours of dull sessions ever since, aching to get even. Last week his moment came. A "comma amendment" (meaning "minor") had been overlooked in hasty consideration of an appropriation bill. Mr. Wallace called for the ayes and nays. In the sleepy Senate no one answered. Like a flash the Vice President declared the vote a tie and bellowed: "The Vice President votes aye and the amendment is agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...appeared between say, Ritz diners bearing a moulting canary bird, incarnate soul of the sacred lbis. Many eye witnesses claim that at this point, Kamber seized the helpless bird, wrung its neck, put it on a large china plate and made Marjorie eat it as Boston photographers clicked their flash bulbs madly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Mickey the Dude" Caps Tipsy Ibis; Starlet's Press Agent Annoys 'Poon | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

...cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Sing Sing Break | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Captain Don Donahue and Sophomore flash Doug Pirnie shared the laurels in Harvard's 88 to 52 off-the-record trouncing of Boston College's track squad Saturday. Each captured a pair of firsts and Donahue supplemented his victories with a third in Pirnie's own 100-yard specialty. The Yardlings set back the Eagle yearlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CINDERMEN DOWN BOSTON COLLEGE | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...standing near the porters' desk, close to the luggage room, when there was a blinding flash. Long tongues of flame shot out from the luggage room. I was thrown to the ground and got up to find myself in a crater, out of which I was only able to look up. Several others were in the crater with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Bombs in the Baggage Room | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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