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LeTourneau's dual occupation seems natural enough to him. Born to devout parents in Richford, Vt., he had three maternal uncles who were ministers, two missionary sisters. At 51 he is a bald, rugged six-footer who looks not unlike Presidential Aspirant Robert Alphonso Taft. He has frequent fits of temper, but he neither smokes, drinks nor swears, likes to lend his loud, bass voice to a revival audience and shout: "Gone, gone, gone, gone. Yes my sins are gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Piety & Profits | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Researcher Sturtevant thinks that it is quite possible that the knack of tongue-rolling is transmitted by a single dominant gene. But he adds cautiously, "with the fairly frequent occurrence of additional complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tongue Twisters | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Frequent visitor to Mickey and the Pankeys is Mom's ex-husband, Mickey's father, Joe Yule, with whom Mickey sometimes goes to the fights. Mickey had little trouble persuading MGM to hire his father for pictures after Joe Yule had been hoofing at a downtown Los Angeles burlesque house, billed as "See Mickey Rooney's Father." By hiring his father, the studio also hoped to end Mickey's backstage visits to the burlesque house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Success Story | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...eternal triangle" which is not handled with enough verve to justify its lack of originality. The lady is in love, is jilted, marries on the rebound, and unfortunately finds herself still in love with the wrong man. The trite plot is not helped much by the dialogue. There are frequent scenes in which one seriously suspects that Miss Lamarr will, at any moment, be tied to the railroad tracks, but fortunately there are others (not so frequent) which reminds one of Clare Booth at her nastiest best. Spencer Tracy is definitely out of place. He is aphoristic, as usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Movigoer | 3/15/1940 | See Source »

...rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Les Sacrifies | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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