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First the Theatre Guild got the script of Brief Moment, asked Mr. Woollcott to play the easygoing, quipful part of the helpful intermediary. He refused. Then Katharine Cornell bought it, made the same request. Somewhat puzzled, Mr. Woollcott read the play, soon discovered why his services were in such demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 23, 1931 | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

He hunts and fishes, tells many a tall tale about both. Good-natured, easygoing, fairly industrious, scrupulously honest, he jokingly refers to himself as "the big fat boy."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: Drop-a-Crop | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Inventor of and apparently chief investor in this new industry is Garnet Carter, the mild, easygoing, drawling owner of Fairyland Inn on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. About a year ago Mr. Carter did what many a U. S. hosteler had done in the past-installed a miniature putting course on his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tom Thumb from Tennessee | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

The final was almost pure formality, but very pleasant. Lanky Roger Wethered, champion in 1923, is one of those easygoing, impersonal British sportsmen who consider it bad form to show their desire to win. His sister Joyce, British women's champion, who trounced her brother in a practice foursome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At St. Andrews | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

A Hero for a Night. This is one more airy and erratic farce which tries not very successfully to add to current aeronautical excitement. The plot concerns an easygoing taxicab driver and a thieving millionaire who head their plane for the Manhattan Stock Exchange and arrive, with surprising ease, in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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