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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factor." The so-called Empire Air Training Plan went into gear last week with the arrival in Ottawa of commissions from Australia and New Zealand. Preparatory work had been done by a committee headed by Arthur Balfour Baron Riverdale of Sheffield, 62, one of Britain's biggest, baldest, blondest, bluffest steel tycoons. Heading the Australian delegation was J. V. Fairbairn, Minister of Civil Aviation, a redheaded air fighter of World War I. Chief representative for Canada is Lieut. Colonel William Avery Bishop, V. C., honorary Marshal of the Royal Canadian Air Force. Now 45, short, chubby, softspoken, he scarcely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Wings for an Empire | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Araby on a mouth organ. On the Valentino anniversary last week, photographers swarmed around the Hollywood Cemetery like bees on jam. One Woman in Black was waiting when the gates opened. Two more arrived at various times during the day. The photographers phlegmatically took pictures of the prettiest and blondest dabbing daintily at her eyes with a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Woman in Black | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

Back on the platinum standard again, Jean Harlow, as an American chorine stranded in Europe for the World War, turns in a performance that should bring many old devotees of the once blondest siren back into the fold...

Author: By W. P. V. e., | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

Popular Pitcher. Thinnest, blondest member of Manager Joe McCarthy's Yankees, Vernon Gomez has succeeded in his profession largely by accident. His father, Francisco Gomez, was a rancher and rodeo performer who settled in Rodeo, Calif. There Vernon was born in 1910. At 13, Vernon Gomez hoped to be a rodeo performer also. He fell off a horse and broke his right arm, took to throwing baseballs with his left. The next spring while a freshman at Richmond High School, he became so expert that a Pacific Coast League team offered him a contract. A member of his high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mid-Season | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

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