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...great W. C. Fields, whom Charlie (Bergen) consistently outgagged, whether Fields stuck to the script or not during their five and a half months together on the program, really wanted to demolish Charlie (not Bergen). There was a genuine, jealous glint in the old fellow's eye when he once threatened: "I'll carve you into a Venetian blind." "Oh Mr. Fields," minced Charlie, "you make me shudder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Man & Moppet | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...against the authenticity of the Protocols and, inferentially, against Jew-Baiter Coughlin. He was Rev. Michael Joseph ("Mike") Ahern, jovial, witty Jesuit, head of the geology department at Weston College near Boston. On his Sunday radio Catholic Truth Period, Father Ahern drew upon European Catholic sources to demolish the Protocols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Egregious Protocols | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Captain Larry Davis, Ringling elephant superintendent, has stated that the 8-year-old Ringling elephant, Fanny, "could demolish Gargantua . . . and it would be no more than a breather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Atop the buildings will be tiers of seats for 100,000 spectators at air shows. Conceived by Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, the designs have been drawn by Air Ministry Architect Dr. Ernst Sagebiel, who plans not only to lay out the biggest paved space on earth but to demolish church steeples, chimneys, high tension towers for miles around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Model Airport | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...official statement, dated August 24, officials say "the university will demolish the outmoded Hemenway Gymnasium, a Harvard landmark since 1878," build the new school on the site vacated, "and erect a new gymnasium nearby which will carry the Hemenway name...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School, Features Summer News | 9/1/1937 | See Source »

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