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...from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin's; that they would have no happy endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Adrian, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1929 | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

Rockefeller Foundation. The fever has already killed Dr. Adrian Stokes of Guy's Hospital, London. It must kill no more. Yet within a few months it did kill Dr. Noguchi and, a few days later, Dr. William A. Young, his associate. Last week as another associate, Dr. A. Maurice Wakeman, was sailing to Southampton, the fever killed him-the fourth. He was 31, "perhaps the outstanding graduate of the Yale School of Medicine." He was on his way to teach as assistant professor at Southampton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Yellow Fever's Fourth | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

Norman Bel Geddes is short, with a muscular chunkiness. His sandy, habitually tousled hair and careless attire indicate no esthetic pose. They suggest the informality of a summer camper, or a man tinkering in a workshop. He was born in Adrian, Mich., in the '90s, and christened Norman Geddes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Geddes at the Fair | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...Washington, D. C., Guatemalan Minister Adrian Recinos predicted, "The revolt will be put down within 48 hours," but it wasn't. Officials of the U S. State Department envisioned the bare possibility of intervention "to protect American lives (700) and property ($60,515,000) in Guatemala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Intervention? | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

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