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Handsome Patty, a product of Los Angeles public courts and protégé of Movie Stars Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, is the National Junior champion. Equally handsome Bob Falkenburg, kid brother of much-photogled Jinx, and a boy friend of Shirley Temple, is the only tennist ever to win both the National Boys' Singles and Doubles championship two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: First Serves | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Poker. In San Francisco, Mrs. Claire Curtin won an annulment after describing her married life. She said that in 1939 her husband had taken time out from a session of poker to marry her, then announced: "Okay, kid, I'm going back to the card game." She concluded: "I haven't seen him since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Company officials feel that the Kid is responsible for a reduced ratio of waste and for redoubled suggestions from employes. Two of the posters have been lithographed and distributed to 7,000 Douglas suppliers, also to some 450 other industries. Among the firms using Tokio Kid posters are Vultee Aircraft, Diamond Tool, Chrysler, Remington Rand, Westinghouse, Western Electric, Carnegie-Illinois Steel. No other wartime Industrial poster has caught on like the Kid. This week the Treasury began using him to sell war bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tokio Kid | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...Tokio Kid was the brain changeling of two Douglas artists, Jack Campbell and Harry Bailey. At present, Campbell is the Kid's sole portrait painter. Campbell was a member of the 40th Engineering Camouflage Division during World War I, is an alumnus of the Disney studio. He is slim, swarthy, long-toothed, usually smiling, wears glasses when he works, bears a certain resemblance to the Kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tokio Kid | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...pompous ball of fire, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Not a delegate to the convention, 33-year-old Publisher Powell was more talked about than acclaimed. Some said he was a hot shot who would fizzle out in a year. One Negro executive called him "a new and slightly pinko kid who hasn't got his feet wet yet." He was called "a poor imitation of Ralph Ingersoll." His journalism was described as the kind that "just brings down criticism on the heads of the whole Negro press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Negro Publishers | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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