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...Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco's Dr. Edna H. Fisher described to a Pacific Science Congress how an otter eats a clam. Description: after catching a clam the otter dives to the ocean floor, picks up a hefty rock, rises to the surface, floats on his back, balances the rock on his belly, clasps the clam between his forepaws, brings it down on the rock with a mighty whack. Shell broken, the otter eats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beer | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Manhattan, Nurse Edna Burdick was driving along a viaduct when her car blew a tire, crashed through a guardrail, plummeted 100 feet to a sandlot. A policeman rushed up to the wreck. Nurse Burdick, scratched but otherwise uninjured, stepped out, asked him to help find her pocketbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...EDNA MORRIS DEVIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...just such a heroine.* Jimmy Suttou (Tyrone Power), the pressagent sent to Bergen to fetch her, at first treats her merely as Entry No. 436. He agrees that she has no chance for the part but talks her into flying to Hollywood for the trip, with her Aunt Phoebe (Edna May Oliver). After a twirl on the ice with her pupils, Trudi consents. Although Trudi does no skating in her screen test, she makes the grade. Jimmy believes that, as the new star, she can be used to bolster the publicity value of Roger Maxwell (Rudy Vall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...found their way to the U. S. as refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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