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...line-up that averaged less than 6 ft. 3. "It takes three times as much work to develop a tall player as it does a short one," says he, "but when you've finished you have something." Already branded for next year's freshman team is a kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giraffes in West Texas | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...story on Dumbo, which designated that blue-eyed baby elephant "Mammal-of-the-Year," TIME quoted Vladimir ("Bill") Tytla, Disney staff artist who conceived Dumbo's face, form and character. "Most of the expressions and mannerisms," said Artist Tytla, "I got from my own kid. There's nothing theatrical about a two-year-old kid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Some weeks later TIME received the following communication from the kid's mother, who is, of course, Artist Tytla's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...career of devil-may-care unpopularity had come to a climax in a 1940 Roosevelt campaign speech, when the President used his name as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. Shortly thereafter Girdler put out feelers to Washington and decided to quit fighting C.I.O. That was now kid stuff; the big leaguers were fighting Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom, Shortages, Taxes, War | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

There's nothing theatrical about a two-year-old kid. They're real and sincere-like when they damn near wet their pants from excitement when you come home at night. I've bawled my kid out for pestering me when I'm reading or something, and he doesn't know what to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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