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...money in church choirs and explored torts at Columbia, Frances Hutt spent two years on the stage, including a spell as a singer in George White's Scandals. By 1928 Thomas Dewey had made two decisions. Forced to sing at an important concert when he had a sore throat, he decided once & for all that he could not let his future depend on such a fragile thing as his vocal chords. And he married Frances Hutt, who immediately retired from the stage, in time became the mother of Thomas Edmund Jr. (now 11) and John Martin Dewey...
...answer some of the questions subscribers all over the world have been asking about how Time gathers, verifies, writes and distributes its news. Copy Boy Bill Lohden was on all-night duty at the A.P. machine when the invasion flash came. His heart went right up in his throat (as most hearts all over America did), but like every one else at TIME he had known for weeks just what his job would be at H-hour, and the bells on the A.P. printer had hardly stopped ringing before he put in the first telephone call that started editors, writers...
...room before dinner to gossip about the day's events, then they move on to Spaatz's office for drinks around the big table with guests. Sally serves the first round, then guests do their own pouring. The General, who is usually cutting someone's throat at cribbage beside the fire, sets up a hungry cry: "Sally, bring the anchovies!" and Sally reaches for a can opener. Mrs. Spaatz keeps a steady flow of ingenious crackers, biscuits, anchovies, kippers, sardines, smoked cheese and the like crossing the Atlantic for X-House; as a gift on his 53rd...
...year-old native witch doctor in the mountains south of Johannesburg wanted to make rain for his people. He slit his four-year-old son's throat, then put the blood into cattle horns. He dissected the body for "rain medicine." He loved his son, he said. But that was the black man's way to make rain...
...these were good reasons for Dies to step down, but they did not make his throat ailment a phony alibi. Friends say he has a growth in his larynx that may require a Mayo Clinic operation...