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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even after his paper began to fade, "Old Pitch" remained a character. His greying hair fell over his collar and his jutting jaw was fringed by old-fashioned sideburns. In his breast pocket he kept a six-inch ruler, with which he settled all arguments concerning distance, and a small pair of scissors, with which he trimmed the ends of the cigars he was forever chewing. He could argue any subject to victory or the exhaustion of his opponent. He settled his bills by stamping them PAID and mailing them back to his creditors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Scarring the green breast of one of the fields on Motormaker Henry Ford's "Fairlane" estate near Detroit is a 60-foot plowed furrow. Around it Ford workmen have built a fence. Over it they have laid a tarpaulin. Why this has been done no Ford employe knows for sure, but most could hazard a sound guess: the furrow is to be preserved for posterity to look at; it will be included in the intriguing mass of Ford memorabilia which includes Luther Burbank's shovel (thrust into a block of concrete), a reproduction of the hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Historic Furrow | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Canada. There the King changed from his Admiral's rig to cutaway and silk topper (the Queen not bothering to change) for the first of a long & indigestible series of official luncheons and dinners. This one, at the Château Frontenac, served up lobster tails, grilled breast of chicken and a Grand Marnier soufflé which neither the King nor the Queen accepted. This instance of royal distaste had the mimicking lunchers floored for the moment, but the King's personal, scarlet-clad footmen signaled to the Château's blue-uniformed corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Royal Visit | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Priests and nuns rehearsed 25,000 school children for a pageant of greeting to Their Majesties on the Plains of Abraham. Kiwanians, Rotarians, Knights of Columbus got final instructions in how to cheer. (Raise hat, give three lusty cheers. Then hold hat in the right hand over the left breast as Their Majesties pass by.) Cameraddicts were warned that they might: 1) take no flashlight pictures; 2) make no attempts to influence Their Majesties to watch the birdie. St. Maurice Valley Sportsman Jean Crete and a corps of assistants angled for 450 speckled trout for the Quebec specialty Truite Mouchetee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Buntings and Icebergs | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...medium used only an aluminum megaphone. When she held it to her breast, Garland heard a high squeaky voice. He rigged up an amplifier, shut the medium in a room where she could not hear what he asked the spirits. Once he put a lollypop in her mouth so she could not talk for them. The spirits squeaked on. Garland conversed with ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spirited | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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