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...fiction"; Taft "had the most legal mind I ever observed." "Some people say Wilson read himself to sleep with detective stories, but I never saw any in his rooms''; Harding read "anything that came along. The wilder and woollier it was, the better. . . ." Coolidge was "a heavy digger after facts"; Hoover favored technical engineering papers; Roosevelt II "collects old English and French books. He shares my love of books and naturally I think he's a great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Senior Shellback | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...like Harvard very much," the "Digger" declared last night, "but with the prospect of the job I think I should be wasting my time here if I were to stay." He said that he will plan to train some while working, and will probably swim in the National A.A.U. meet, unattached. He also expects to compete in the next Olympics--for Australia, because he is still an Australian citizen despite his residence in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kendall, Great Free-Styler, to Leave Harvard in June for Business Career | 4/16/1938 | See Source »

...third place in the 440 while Frank Coleman wins by a large margin. While Hutter runs away with the 100, it's Freddie Griffin who has the real race on his hands for the lesser honors. Ray Benedict always has to work his head off in the 220 while Digger Kendall coasts to a record, and Jack Kennedy in the backstroke, Jim Munroe and Phil Walker in the breast, and Forbush and Synder in the dive, are never sure of their places unless they put up a real fight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire department-store owner whose business contributes a dozen more stories. The beautiful, shanty Irish gold digger who feeds Greg's story is not so much a tributary as a cloudburst. Corinne's story runs small but fairly clear until it widens muddily when she gets mixed up with a homosexual stage designer. The narrative stream fed by the greatest number of branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rice Pudding | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Musicraft. Last February Musicraft Records, Inc. was the first of the three new little firms on the market with such discs. A youngish Manhattan lawyer named Milton L. Rein and a music teacher named Henry Cohen formed the firm, took in Herman Adler, a musical researcher from Germany, as digger-in-chief for recordable works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Discs for Dilettanti | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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