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King of Jazz at this time was fat, jovial Paul Whiteman. But the power behind King Whiteman's throne was a bland, easy-spoken, Manhattan-born Californian named Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe. As Whiteman's arranger. Ferde Grofe dressed up many a sleazy Tin Pan Alley Cinderella and made it the belle of the ball. Even the late George Gershwin's renowned Rhapsody in Blue was a mere sketch until Grofe got hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cyrano von Grofe | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...finest, cagiest and laziest painters is André Derain. His Por of Catherine Hessling, in the Chicago Institute, and his landscape. Southern 'in. the Phillips Memorial Gallery Washington, are perhaps the two most jobs of their kind owned in the S. A big, bland Frenchman with a love of fast automobiles (he owned five), a facile mastery of tech and a cold Norman disinclination to commit himself to artistic movements, 58-year-old Derain is France's particular among the moderns because he car on the glories of French tradition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Surprise | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...constipation, who are too impatient to wait for the bowel rhythm to re-establish itself, Dr. Aaron suggests certain mild laxatives. Unobjectionable are mineral oil, milk of magnesia, cascara sagrada. "Least objectionable" for habitual constipation is agar, a dried mucilaginous extract of East Asian seaweed, which produces a large bland bulk in the bowel. "Mineral waters, whether natural or artificial, should not be used. . . ." Dr. Aaron went on to advise readers to avoid any cathartic pills that contain aloe, aloin (both somewhat irritant drugs), or strychnine; also any laxative chocolates, candies, chewing gums that contain phenolphthalein, a tasteless drug which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Constipation | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Students at New York's City College have become accustomed to discovering that their pompous college officials have feet of clay. Four years ago they tittered when their president, bland Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, wrote an article for Bernarr Macfadden's sensational True Story Magazine. Last week City College's students caught another member of the administration in an embarrassing position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sugar Coated Study | 11/7/1938 | See Source »

...afternoon last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau sat in bland conclave with the Press. Deluged with questions about how the U. S. dollar and U. S. economy were faring in the worst war scare since 1914, he finally remarked: "I think we are proving to the world that the U. S. is the financial centre of the world and we can resist the kind of nervousness which people who have money are feeling at this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: Not Yet | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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