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...Brown plays with deadly seriousness which is at times intensely funny, and with few of the rubberface antics which used to make his acting tasteless. A more loyal baseball enthusiast than Elmer the Great. Cinemactor Brown is part owner of the Kansas City Blues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 24, 1933 | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

President Roosevelt wanted and got a farm relief enthusiast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Senate v. Sun | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

Last winter British Art Dealer Sir Joseph Duveen finished a long wait when King George V, no Duveen enthusiast, made him Lord Duveen of Millbank. Part-payment on the title was his gift to Britain of a new wing for London's National Portrait Gallery. Last week ruddy Duveen, a Lord at last, listened proudly in the Gallery's great tapestry-hung hall while King George ceremoniously declared the wing open through the "generosity of . . . Sir Joseph Duveen." Listening too were Queen Mary and Prime Minister MacDonald. From pictures on the walls Britain's dead great looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 10, 1933 | 4/10/1933 | See Source »

...observed Dr. Rafe Chester Chaffin, assistant professor of gynecology in the College of Medical Evangelists at Los Angeles. In the current American Journal of Surgery he, a radio enthusiast, explained how he had equipped himself to talk to his classes without raising his voice and disturbing the patient. His device is a microphone mounted on a little rod, held before his mouth inside the surgeon's mask by a headband, connected to an amplifier built into a suitcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon's Mike | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...good hater and because he gave a name to two U. S. phenomena- Main Street and Babbitt-that were crying for a name, the public finally applauded him and prizes came his way. But Sinclair Lewis is still, as he has always been, a romantic, an enthusiast. Though cynics say that if you want sympathy you had better look for it in the dictionary, Author Lewis is a passionate believer in the reality of dictionary words. Ann Vickers, his first book since he won the Nobel Prize, is only incidentally an attack on U. S. politics, society, penology. Fundamentally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monster Crusader | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

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