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Worth Two Cents. Credit for improving revision methods goes to Ohio-born, frog-voiced Elkin Harrison Powell, 54, president of Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. since 1934, and Editor Yust, a patient, diligent stringbean of a Pennsylvanian who joined the staff in 1930. In 1939, Yust started a revision schedule under which...
To snake her way through a radiobroadcast love scene, Theda Bara, 52, siren of the early silents, emerged from 20-odd years of retirement. Her victim was goggle-eyed Groucho Marx. The studio audience found the famed vamp about 30 Ib. heavier than in her salad days, but still trim...
But TIME still has only one aim-to help busy, intelligent people get the news and as much of its meaning as diligent reporting can discover.
The Adjutant. The Commandant's right-hand man is greying, diligent Major A. (for Aloysius) G. Casey, who since 1920 has held every enlisted and commissioned army grade from private to field officer. Originally an ack-ack man in the Massachusetts National Guard Coast Artillery, with which he entered Federal...
Now, after a generation of expansion, construction and landscaping, diligent Promoter Eaton (he prefers to be known simply as The Builder) has developed Forest Lawn to the point where "nature herself seems to have planned these acres for their consecrated purpose." Over the grounds which Copywriter Bruce Barton once dubbed...