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"I am diligent and ambitious and so I am sure to make my way anywhere, and you may be certain, that I should not be a burden to any one.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Five- Year-Hope | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

But diligent students of baseball knew that Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley, multimillionaire Cub owner whose family had sunk millions in the club, was not satisfied. Owner Wrigley wanted his team in first place. He wanted the Cubs as animated as the pixies that perform on his famed Broadway electric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: That's Baseball | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

Sholtz campaign schedule calls for half-a-dozen speeches a day-two in the morning, one at lunch, two in the afternoon, one at night. A sound truck with a 25-record library precedes him. Another accompanies him to broadcast his speech which lasts only 40 minutes, is always the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

¶ Thirty-year-old Harry Florian Wolf is the best U. S. amateur squash tennis player. Serious son of a Montclair, N. J handkerchief maker, Harry Wolf went to Williams, where he played no squash tennis but by diligent study won a Phi Beta Kappa key, by diligent bridge-playing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scholars | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Unlike many modernist composers, 42-year-old Hindemith has had wide experience as a practical musician, is a virtuoso on the viola. After running away from home at the age of eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kulturbolschewist | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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