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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Natalie Cantor Metzger, 22, second of Eddie Cantor's five daughters, and Joseph Lewis Metzger, 24, Hollywood antique dealer, a son, their first child. Eddie Cantor's first grandson; in Hollywood, Calif. Weight: 8 Ibs. 9 oz. Name: Michael. In Boston, Grandfather Cantor, 46, dashed back on the stage in a short skirt and golden wig he had been wearing in impersonation of Shirley Temple, popped his doorknob eyes, screamed his glad news to 5,000 cheering customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...stumble a good deal more, there is little difference between chasing a hound that is chasing a rabbit and chasing a golfer who is chasing a golf ball. But beaglers, unlike golf fans, are mighty etiquetty. Their exclusive fraternity has honorary degrees, liveries and other traditions that date back to the days of Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseless Hunters | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...these horseless hunters are young, red-blooded suburbanites who find the sport inexpensive outdoor exercise for fall and winter Sundays. Some are middle-aged beaglers-notably the Buckrams' walrusy Hoffman Nickerson (Harvard '11) and his British bride of a year, whose enthusiasm for beagling dates back to her pigtail days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horseless Hunters | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...making the world safe for Big Business. Letitia Fairfield, sister of Novelist Rebecca West: "The Catholic press will cut no ice morally so long as they make persecutions of the church the test of right and wrong in international affairs." Author George Glasgow: "Stemming atheistic bolshevism and bringing Europe back to Almighty God will not be achieved by this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God This, God That | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...game is Hayes Body Corp., which has had a less than mediocre record since 1929, when it lost the job of making Chrysler bodies. Having just refilled its till with about $300,000 of new private money and $450,000 of RFC money, Hayes proposes to pay back this arm of the Government by selling to another arm-the War and Navy Departments. Its new lines: aircraft parts, ordnance, armored truck bodies. To help win a place on Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson's clubby suppliers' list, Hayes Body went last week and got a new president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: War Babies | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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