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...simpered the news that her brother had disappeared. The stunt was to find him. Columbia Broadcasting's part lay in letting Burns & Allen wander in & out of other station programs. Amid prearranged confusion they burst in with a flood of stupid questions as to the whereabouts of the daft brother. Audiences loved it. Newspaper colyumists gave it columns of space. And last week Animal Hunter Frank Buck (Bring 'Em Back Alive) joined the nonsensical brother-hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Nat & Googie | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Canby '36, Zechariah Chafee '34, A. T. Collier '34, L. P. Forster '33, E. A. Grant '32, R. I. Hardin 3L, J. D. Kernan '34, L. P. Marks 2L, H. W. Rubin '35, F. F. Silver '34, and R. S. Tangeman 1G; bases: G. H. Acheson '33, H. M. Daft '34, A. L. Gordon '34, H. E. Holm '35, C. V. MacCoy 5G, J. L. McDowell 4Dn., M. F. McKesson '34, J. H. Packard '34, T. B. Palmer 4G, W. S. Salant '33, R. E. Simon, Jr. '35, R. P. Stebbins '33, M. E. Vuilleumier '35, E. F. Wahlstrom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB SINGS AT YALE ON EVE OF FOOTBALL CONTEST | 11/4/1932 | See Source »

...foreign electric railways and from all items of construction, equipment and control, Edison's name being substituted. Later he sold his electric elevator company to Otis Elevator Co. Electric traction had many other fathers -including Siemens Co. in Germany, Stephen D. Field, Charles J. Van Depoele, Leo Daft-but Frank Julian Sprague first conceived the idea of a car moving freely between two contact planes, the terminals of a constant potential generating system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Liberator of Mules | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...Acheson '33, N.P. Beveridge '32, H.M. Daft '34, B.M. Davis '32, J.T. Dennison '34, D.B. Dorman '32, J.L. Freeman '32, A.L. Gordon '34, J.M. Keller '32, P.H. Kozodoy '32, E.A. Kracke '32, M.A. Mergentheim '33, B.C. Meyer '32, E.L. Olsson Gr., T.P. Palmer Gr., R.W. Perry '32, M.L. Robbins '32, W.S. Salant '33, Arthur Sard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB CHOOSES MEN FOR CONCERT | 11/13/1931 | See Source »

...sees into genuine art; occasionally he has succeeded. Lately he has taken to visiting factories, watching with his trou bled stare the unselfconscious machines, the unquestioning workers. Perhaps Women, a fragmentary notebook, is the result of these brooding visitations. Not the arguable art of economics but human beings, their daft ways, their queer needs, are what fascinate Sherwood Ander son. What Anderson thinks is wrong with U. S. men (he has said it before) is im potence. To watch a Barker-Coleman spooler warper in a cotton mill, says he, is enough to make any artist feel it in himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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