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...Cornelius, N. C., Mrs. G. M. Burton, Negress, does not sing "Ten baby fingers and ten baby toes" to Bettie, a daughter she bore three years ago. Bettie, taken last week to a Charlotte, N. C., clinic for examination, has 18 fingers, 25 toes, on the normal number of hands & feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Optimists | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...other Senators, less daring, merely stopped off at Shanghai. They were Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, Montana Democrat, en route to the U. S. from the Philippines, and Senator Guy Despard Goff, West Virginia Republican, en route to the Philippines from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Gathering Host | 7/4/1927 | See Source »

...Chicago, one Burton Parquette, 23, arrested last week, pleaded with policemen: "Let me run. If you shoot me, all well and good. If I get away, that's my good luck. I can't stand being locked up." They jailed him. Later they found him writhing. He had pulverized the lenses of his eyeglasses and swallowed the grit. He was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jun. 27, 1927 | 6/27/1927 | See Source »

STANDARD OIL OF INDIANA: Robert Wright Stewart, Chairman; William Meriam Burton, President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Standard Oil | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Rascoe-Collins. The new owner-editors of the Bookman promise a magazine that will be enlarged to include "general ideas and culture." Burton Rascoe is not new on the U. S. literary scene. Born in Kentucky, he began to read Socrates and Kant at the age of 12. He was a reporter before becoming book critic for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. In 1924, the Bookman said of him: "As a human being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bookman Sold | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

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