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...Sunday radio program, the Mayor (who leaves office on Dec. 31) lectured New York housewives on the best way to cook a big turkey in a small oven: "The stern of the turkey, you know, the rear end-they call it the rudder here-is cut off about one inch." Later, he confided to a gathering at a Brooklyn clinic that he dislikes horse doctors because "a horse doctor pulled my first baby tooth." Wednesday he fired a few practice shots at Candidate O'Dwyer to sharpen his eye for his shooting bee with Governor Dewey on Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: How to Steal a Scene | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...hard life of a Point plebe did next to nothing to Doc's impish, hillbillyish charm. He still managed to have fun. When he laughed, his mouth spread as wide as an oven door. He had a drawl that could pass for Amos & Andy's Kingfish, and an easy line of chatter about his important "social contacts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...transport was oven-hot before it left the baked, gleaming coral of the runway. Fifteen of the Japs took off their heavy boots and lolled in the plush, adjustable seats-even more luxurious than the famous "MacArthur chairs." The 16th kept his boots on. He was grey, roundheaded Lieut. General Torashiro Kawabe, vice chief of the Army General Staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SURRENDER: Job for an Emperor | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

Commentator Wilfrid von Oven: "The enemy is knocking at the door of Berlin. . . . The defenders at this point are still in a state of improvisation. Nobody should lose his head when he sees tanks appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Man Who Can't Surrender | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...days after the crash the body of Oumansky was cremated in the same oven that had been used to cremate Leon Trotsky, murdered (by a GPU agent) in Mexico City four and a half years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ambassador's End | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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