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...plea in Chicago to have wife Marva's $200-a-week temporary alimony halved. He said his fighting does not bring him $250,000 a year-only $56,000, after taxes. ∙ ∙ In Manhattan wealthy Private Joseph Paterno Jr.'s mother asked a court to knock $50 off the $400-a-month separate maintenance her son pays estranged wife Beverly. Mother Paterno said her son's allowance was only $10,000 a year, and besides Beverly was accepting gifts from Playboy Tommy Manville, 47. ∙ ∙ In a trial involving a man who said he sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: High Cost of Living | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Knock 'em silly with Camilli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rah-Rah-Brooklyn | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...higher up. The lumber saved will amount to millions of board feet a year. The power saw not only brings the tree down, it also does the bucker's work, slicing up timber like so much sausage. Only human timber cutters needed for mechanized logging are toppers (who knock the tops off the trees) and limbers (who slash the limbs away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Loggers' End | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

...Gaullists slip into France at every opportunity, and can rely so much on popular support that they knock on doors at random, announce simply: "I am here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Reconquering An Empire | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

...cynical Brooklyn voters, knowing the New Deal will be solidly behind the President's Little Flower, thought Ed Flynn was probably setting up Brooklyn's O'Dwyer just to knock him over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To the Lions? | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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