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Dazed peasants in County Limerick, staring up this week from their fields, may have thought the Old Boy himself was whipping those demon horses and riding that painted coach down the road to Rathkeale. But it was the Irish Stagecoach, a spanking four-in-hand, with liveried coachman and guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRELAND: Time Marches Back | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

For hours she sat in her corner, staring silently into space, her pupils dilated, her heart pounding, her breathing labored. She shunned her old friends, refused to eat for days at a time. Occasionally she became agitated or infantile and kittenish. But often she just sat, in a catatonic stupor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catatonic Cats | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Last month Benj. Franklin was kicked off the cover of the Satevepost for the first time since old Cyrus H. K. Curtis bought it 45 years ago. If old Cyrus turned in his grave then, this week's cover must have brought his amazed ghost stalking into Independence Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Good-by, Benj. | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

United Drug, Inc., after staring at subnormal profits statements for years, turned over a new leaf last week. It installed young Justin W. Dart, 34, as vice president and director and made him president of its Liggett Drug Co. subsidiary, largest U.S. chain of retail drugstores. Liggett has been one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: United Gets Its Man | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

When Guaragnella began buying soup-fin shark at $40 a ton, the fishing fleet thought he was crazy. But soon the secret was out and prices zoomed to $240, $500, $1,200 and finally, last fall, to $1,500 a ton. Fishermen went shark staring mad. With their 6,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sharks for Vitamins | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

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