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...Major Allan Brooks, Audubon Societies' youthful Roger Tory Peterson (Field Guide to the Birds), and the late brilliant Louis Agassiz Fuertes. But sportsmen and some collectors like the easy naturalism of Brasher's duck pictures, the spirit of his long-shanked road runner, the dash of his bald eagle. Accordingly, not many bird societies and libraries, but rather sportsmen and dilettantes - like Airplane Manufacturer William Edward Boeing, Cereal Manufacturer W. K. Kellogg, Author Paul de Kruif-have bought 84 complete sets of Brasher (874 pictures of 1,200 species and subspecies). Audubon, during his lifetime, had sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Brasher's Birds | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...Bald, genial Cecil B. DeMille, producer of a score of movie "speciacles," stated in a speech here last night that the movie industry is ready and willing to absorb the bright young men of the colleges providing they're well trained...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies Want Bright Young Men, but Colleges Must Give Practical Training | 1/19/1938 | See Source »

...would rather put on Author Will Durant than Philosopher John Dewey. He admits his debates supply listeners with little information but conceives his role as that of stimulator. Mr. Denny wants his 3,000,000 auditors to be open-minded above all. An indefatigable user of hair tonics, bald Mr. Denny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Town Meetings | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...stock of Auburn Automobile Co. against two partners of the important brokerage house of E. F. Hutton & Co. and a floor trader on the New York stock exchange. Most startling of all-one of the cited partners was Gerald M. Loeb. long known (in spite of his bald head) as one of Wall Street's "fair-haired boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: SEC's Next Round | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

...maxim of big Standard Oil Co. of California. Last month Standard's famed President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury died in Panama. Last week Standard's directors met briefly, chose as Standard's fourth president a man who joined the company in 1902 as a stenographer-bald, golf-loving William H. Berg, 55. Standard's expert on foreign oil production, President Berg is credited with developing the Bahrein Island oil fields in the Persian Gulf. This week down the ways at Chester, Pa. will slide a new Standard Oil tanker. Name: William H. Berg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Dec. 20, 1937 | 12/20/1937 | See Source »

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