Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figure Skating is patterned on the ballet. To make sure their figures would fit perfectly the music which accompanied them, World Champion Pair Skaters Ernst Baier, 29-year-old Berlin architect, and Maxi Herber, his 16-year-old Munich protégée, last autumn had themselves photographed in action by a cinema camera, sent the film to a composer who devised a score to match their action. This painstaking process justified itself last week. The seven judges soberly awarded Skaters Herber & Baier first prize for a demonstration which supplied in finish whatever it lacked in spontaneity. Viennese Bandleader...
...Printing, caught Queen Anne levying the first taxes against newspapers, discovered that the American Revolution "really began in 1765" when the first batch of newspaper duty stamps was shipped out to the Colonies from England, deduced that the Louisiana tax law was not only unconstitutional but historically unsound. Last autumn three U. S. District Court judges sitting at Baton Rouge found for the publishers on the discrimination plea presented by Lawyer Esmond Phelps, a New Orleans Times-Picayune director, passed over Lawyer Deutsch's libertarian thesis. When Public Account Supervisor Alice Lee Grosjean took the case to Washington, however...
...daily Free Press feature, and Guest the wonder of the staff for the ease with which he metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guests put their oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...
...taciturn Captain Edwin C. Musick of the China Clipper keeps a diary, he last week had good reason for grumping in it. The proud program of spanning the Pacific, which he began for Pan American Airways with much éclat last autumn (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.), has ever since run more & more askew in a crescendo of frustration which last week attained a new climax. The diary...
...bondholders' committee sponsored by the House of Morgan made an interim report on the current state of Florida East Coast. The road's immediate problem is the Key West Extension, 40 miles of which was completely wrecked by the hurricane that howled over the Florida Keys last autumn (TIME, Sept. 16). Since then not a train has run south of the mainland jump-off station of Homestead. The road estimates that nearly $3,000,000 is needed to replace spans and causeways with steel structures, $1,800,000 to do it with wooden trestles. Another...