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Leg Appeal. Daughter of a small-town dry-goods merchant (her mother was the belle of Cocke County, Tenn.), Grace Moore started her career at 17 by running away from a Washington music school where she had been studying singing. In Manhattan, like hundreds of other stage struck youngsters, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exuberant Grace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Beauregard's order did not reach some brigades, reached others only to paralyze them. Not waiting for the Napoleonic stroke, Federal troops crossed Bull Run by the easiest route-also the most lightly defended-and fell on Beauregard's left. The Confederates owed their victory not to Beauregard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Generalship, With Examples | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

In Knoxville, Tenn., Revenuer Sam McKinney, after raiding nine Cocke County stills, received a tearful letter: "In rades made last two weeks you got our forth licker, one forth our pots and barls. So plees let us alone awhile til we get good start again. We want work. Wer ashamd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

This unusual old school, a sort of Dixie Eton, sits aristocratically in the Virginia hills seven miles across the Potomac from Washington. Older than St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Groton, Hill and Hotchkiss, this home of traditions older than four U. S. wars looks down on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: High School's looth | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Alan S. Downer 1G is directing the play. The cast follows: Diccon, Edward H. Turner '36; Hodge, Walter S. White '36; Tyb, Edward V. Malcolm '35; Gammer Gurton, Ralph Lazzaro '36; Cocke, Edmund S. Morgan '37; Dame Chatte, C. Robert Moore '35; Doctor Rat, Donald Armstrong '35; Mayster Baylye, Robert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/13/1934 | See Source »

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