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In order to keep his creative faculties unsullied by routine, Weaver leaves management of his cluttered office to two young assistants-La Verne N. Laseau and A. Marsden Thompson. Rather a diligent extrovert in his writings, he assumes such pen-names as Fargan Hathway, makes a point of quoting Baltasar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOTORS: Thought-Starter | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Inspired by what happened when Governor Herbert Lehman gave young Thomas Edmund Dewey a free hand to clean up New York County (Manhattan) as special prosecutor three years ago. pugnacious little Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia this year got a Dewey of his own for New York City's five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Over the Bridge | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

As some football teams have co-captains, so some symphonies have co-conductors. Back to work from his summer home in Sanbornville, N.H. last week went one of the Philadelphia orchestra's co-conductors, blond-haired, Budapest-born Eugene Ormandy. Mr. Ormandy had spent a diligent summer, working over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: First Fiddle | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Nominee Fay also won the designation of the American Labor Party in his district. To be sure of getting all the anti-Roosevelt votes available in November, Nominee O'Connor last week prepared to run also as an Andrew Jackson Democrat. Should he win under that label it might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Gashouse Finale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Several years ago Albert Jay Nock wrote a stimulating article on culture, which he described thus: ". . . One would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALUE OF WASTING TIME | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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