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Vag knew--and was paralyzed. He could not see the sense of it. And like all people who cannot see the sense of it, he kept on staring into space. Finally, one morning, he heard bells ringing. He grabbed a book and thumbed it, feverishly. Too late. . . .

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1940 | See Source »

But the hero of the week was Bachelor Frank Murphy, whose sister Mrs. Margaret Teahan is still kept busy denying that she ever said, "He [Frank] looks more like Jesus every day." About him Washington has had a hard time making up its official mind, with admirers retelling stories of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Pattern | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

The Independence Hall was three days out of Bordeaux, bound for New York. She had, by the grace of God, 80 beds in the hold. . . . There were over 300 of us in that hold, for besides the survivors from the Yorkshire, the crew of the City of Mandalay, another torpedoed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

The big man in the rumpled suit scratched his pen steadily across the large white sheets. In the stillness of the Oval Room the two flags hung limp on the mahogany standards; blue smoke from his burning cigaret wavered up from the silver tray. On his desk were newspapers, staring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: It Shall Come to Pass | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

On Oct. 16, 1931, Winnie Ruth Judd was blonde, slim, shapely, 26. That was the day she killed her friends. Many times in the next 15 months, passionate Mrs. Judd earned in full her newspaper nickname "The Blonde Tigress." She dropped her hysteria, her fits of blank staring, only when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tigress Loose | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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