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...brick house remodeled by himself. He likes jokes with the same dry irony as his pictures. Once he told his fellow-Iowan Henry Wallace that he had just perfected a type of clover seed that would increase the nation's clover crop by one-third. Agog, Wallace pressed Wood for details, found it was "a seed that grows nothing but four-leaf clovers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Period Piece | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Automobile manufacturers, among the chief victims of Depression II, last week were so agog over good omens for the Auto Show (see p. 71) that sour earnings fazed them not a whit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Third-Quarter | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...last week, when the twelve survivors of Round 2 were preparing to fight it out in the finals, Brussels, agog, was laying bets right & left. The twelve finalists had been moved from their lodgings to the Royal Palace in suburban Laeken. There each of them was shut in a soundproof room with a piano and a brand-new manuscript copy of an unpublished (and unknown) concerto by Belgian Composer Jean Absil, composed especially for the occasion. For seven days they sweated over this assignment, kept from contact with the outside world but allowed to walk in the Palace grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Musical Olympics | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Born Balthasar Klossowsky, son of a Polish-French art critic, Balthus learned to paint without a teacher, put traditional methods immediately to his own uses. Since 1934, when the Balthus debut set Paris all agog, the artist has exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightshade | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Big Steel, Little Stet | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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