Word: back
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...getting together the very interesting sketch that you present this week on Wendell L. Willkie [TIME, July 31]. It is always worthwhile to spotlight men who have done an outstanding job in their field. Too much credit can not be given to Mr. Willkie for leading the way back to sane business-government relations...
Capital of the original Comet model airplane company was $5. One day a solemn, blond boy, Samuel A. Goldenberg left the workroom back of old man Bibichkow's tailor shop on Chicago's West Side with $2 and came back with a bundle of balsawood, twine and glue. Jolly, dark-haired, young Bill Bibichkow took the rest of the capital and came back with a scroll saw. Working after classes at Crane Technical High School they began to turn out model airplane kits, sold the first one for 43?. For the first month of their partnership-October...
...their visiting cards (bearing the Chinese version of their names: Au Dung and Y Hsiao Wu) to U.S. missionaries and British diplomats, who received them kindly. They interviewed General von Falkenhausen (Chiang Kai-shek's German adviser at that time), histrionic U.S. Red Writer Agnes Smedley (China Fights Back), who thought they might be fascist plotters because they talked with von Falkenhausen. Madame Chiang Kaishek, with whom the poets took tea, was "for all her artificiality a great heroic figure," but the Generalissimo was "bald" and "mild-looking." We laughed as we pictured Chiang, Madame and Donald [Chiang...
...take them to the front in a quiet sector, "we found ourselves discussing the poetry of Robert Bridges. The Testament of Beauty can seldom have been quoted in less appropriate surroundings." In China's wildwest Sian, they met a Swiss doctor who had attended D. H. Lawrence. Back in Hankow, a Chinese lady gave them a lacquer box containing an ivory skull for Virginia Woolf...
...sime Sabatier, a pair of broad-boned, high-cheeked young Huguenots, wanted respectively to be prosperous merchant and artist. Both started well, as Onésime eloped with his rich cousin, Cécile Renouvier, and Stéphane got Cécile's paunchy, grandiose father to back a Marseille importing firm for him. The brothers' ambitions were reversed when his wife's money gradually converted Onésime into a comfortable bourgeois and Stéphane, after being ruined in business by bulbous-eyed Solomon Lévy-Ruhlmann, turned to painting...