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...people whom God loved and of whom He made so many read the earthy tabloid produced in this building. Every News executive knows that the inscription is not an empty slogan, for the News has profited and grown because of the publisher's uncommonly sensitive common touch. Its blunt advice to advertisers: Tell it to Sweeney-the Stuyvesants will understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sweeney Told | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ball & Spike | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Howard Evans is the blunt headmaster of the Betteshanger School in Dover, England. Headmaster Evans believes in good bodies, declares that a man who develops a "monstrous girth" commits a social crime. Three weeks ago he debarked nine of his cheek-blown, beef-eating Betteshanger boys in Manhattan, had them show U. S. citizens proper methods of breathing and exercise. Last week, having seen as well as shown, Headmaster Evans prepared to ship his brood back to England, paused to observe that the average U. S. boy was superior in physique to the English boy. But he added a warning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Physique | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed out to him in trenchant Panhandle trope . . . Mr. Roosevelt may begin to believe and apply the blunt Texas counsel." This week it was reported that blunt Texas counsel had turned thumbs down on further deficit spending, that Mr. Roosevelt might take the issue to the microphone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Pitching in a Pinch | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the effect of Governor Leche's soothing words, last speaker on the card was Secretary Wallace. His theme: Pan-Americanism is the best safeguard against dictatorships and "we now know there are nations which despise Democracy and which look with longing eyes toward this hemisphere." His blunt conclusion: "This challenge from the dictatorships of Europe caught us unawares. We lost for a time our common purpose, but now it has been restored. Europe, we thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coliseum Fracas | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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