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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...size and subtracted .07 oz. from the weight of the official golf ball, a great muttering has been heard from the fairways, greens and locker-rooms of the land. The U. S. G. A.'s prime reason for the change was to make golf harder for expert players. It was said that things had come to such a pass that long hitters like Bobby Jones and Horton Smith never had a chance to play a brassie shot. The bigger lighter ball adopted by the U. S. G. A. (1.68 in. diameter, 1.55 oz.) is about the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ball Crusade | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...records of Son David's birth, a year later in San Francisco, were presumably destroyed by the earthquake-fire of 1906. David Belasco's theatrical record is less hazy. In 1882 he went from California to New York with enough stage experience to obtain work as lighting expert and stage manager for the old Madison Square Theatre. He claimed to have been the first to sink footlights into the stage. Later he began writing and producing plays with Daniel Frohman. In 1889. Caroline Dudley Carter was sensationally divorced by her husband Leslie of the Little Liver Pills family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Exit a Character | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...political tycoon. The Connerses lived so gaily at "The Monastery," their estate at Huntington, Long Island, that since he died (1929) she has refused to return there. (One of the rooms is paved with old tombstones.) She also gave up the motorboat racing at which she was enthusiastically expert. Last summer while she was traveling in California and thinking of founding a children's home somewhere with her inherited wealth (she is a devout Roman Catholic convert), she heard of the Coffey-Humber cancer work in San Francisco. She visited the Southern Pacific General Hospital unannounced and found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: California v. New York | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...trips with Mrs. McInnerney to Montecatini. Last week President McInnerney had much business before him. National Juice Corp. was expanding its business of making orange juice in Florida, quick-freezing it, shipping it north to be delivered with the morning's milk. The National laboratories, headed by vitamin-expert Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum (TIME, April 6), were experimenting with two new products; soft curd milk and sweet acidophilus. More important, National was pressing, on two fronts, its bold expansion policy. For though people may weep during Depression, still they must eat and drink and National Dairy is marching steadily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Milky Way | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...revue. Painful results: Anne Merrick is pursued by a publisher, Steve Merrick makes expensive gestures toward a pretty neighbor. Pregnancy is presently established as a motive for reunion. What makes Up Pops the Devil as amusing in film as it was recently on the Manhattan stage is expert dialog by Arthur Kober and the treatment of important trivialities. Party Husband (First National). It is not hard to guess what turns a domestic comedy will take with a young couple who love each other but have made up their minds not to let marriage interfere with their separate individualities. The husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

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