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...bedside, was sharp enough to get out of the stock-market before the 1929 crash. In search of dry air, he was carried to Egypt, Spain, then to the U. S. Southwest for good. Not since 1923 had he seen a football game with sharp-faced President Walter Dill Scott, of Northwestern, great ferret of endowments, great friend of Deerings. Roger died at 51 last fortnight in Albuquerque, N. Mex. Last week his will revealed that except for small bequests to his mother and two sisters, his entire estate of something over $7,000,000 will go to Northwestern. Bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Northwestern Harvest | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Forsaking All Others (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Dill Todd (Robert Montgomery) leaves his fiancee, Mary Clay (Joan Crawford), waiting at the church while he elopes with his old mistress. The best man, Jeff Williams (Clark Gable), then spanks Mary with a hairbrush. These antics are intended to suggest that all three characters are urbane patricians, filled with charm and worldly wisdom. Lest the point remain in doubt, they speak exclusively in hard-boiled whimsey. When Jeff calls on Mary he kisses her and says: "Perfectly beautiful outside! How inside?" Mary: "Swell, inside." This means that Mary has forgotten Dill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

When she sees Dill again, Mary finds out her mistake. She and Dill are soon up to their old tricks, insulting the proprietors of roadside restaurants, wrecking Rolls-Royce roadsters and imposing on their friends. When they spend a night together, Dill further establishes his character as a sophisticate by catching cold, getting burned and sleeping alone on a downstairs sofa. His bride divorces him and he is on the point of settling down with Mary after all, when she discovers she is wrong again. Jeff Williams is the man she loves. They go off to Spain together, leaving Dill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Hollywood than on that portion of the public which it will delight. Adapted from an unsuccessful play in which Tallulah Bankhead performed (TIME, March 13, 1933), produced with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's finest trimmings, it contains a few bits of expert comedy by Charles Butterworth. Worst shot: Dill Todd giving Mary Clay a ride on the handlebars of a borrowed bicycle, landing in a pigpen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

Under the supervision of Dr. David B. Dill, Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry, a special study has been made in the last two years of chemical changes in the blood during exercise. Harvard tracksters are used as patients for the work, which consists of running on a treadmill capable of being geared downed to speeds of 2.3 miles per hour or stopped up as high as 17 miles per hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Fatigue Laboratory, Working at Boulder Dam, Preserved Lives by Study of Heat Effects | 11/8/1934 | See Source »

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