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Damaged at a pier in Suez lay the Arkansan (Sept. 11). Unscathed, somewhere in the Atlantic, was the U.S. destroyer Greer, which a Nazi submarine had tried several times, unsuccessfully, to torpedo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: You Shall Go No Further | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...identical with their activities in real life. This scheme has worked well with such heterogeneous oddities as the Dionnes, Sonja Henie, Lily Pons and Max Baer. The Arkansas Traveler can be regarded as another example of the same school. Robin Burns is a 42-year-old Arkansan who grew up in Van Buren, Ark., became an itinerant laborer, vaudeville comedian and hobo until he joined the Marines in 1917. Most noteworthy achievement of Robin Burns up to this time was the invention and mastery of the bazooka, a homemade horn composed of two gas pipes and a whiskey funnel, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: New Pictures: Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...when and if the F.C.C. does approve both deals, the two stations will presumably be taken over by the Frontier Broadcasting Co. which was incorporated for $10,000 last month by Mr. & Mrs. Roosevelt and an experienced broadcasting man named Harry Alexander Hutchinson. "Hutch," an extremely reticent Arkansan of 38, lanky, suave, slick-haired, has been in the radio business for 14 years, most recently with Hearst Radio, Inc. He will be general manager of the, new chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: KABC, KFJ2P | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Chief job of answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Stop-Gap | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

...game, the Tigers took the fourth game, 2-to-1, on Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games in a row to win, the Cubs took the fifth, like the first a pitching duel between Warneke and Detroit's famed Arkansan, Schoolboy Rowe, 3-to-1, mainly on the strength of a homerun by their Right Fielder Chuck Klein, and the teams moved back to Detroit to end their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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