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...bluffed his way through the eyesight test but was found out. He tried advertising and was good at it, like Author Sherwood Anderson, but resigned to write. In 1926 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, went to France and wrote John Brown's Body. Some months ago he followed the well-worn path to Hollywood to write the dialog for Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Sept. 8). Other books: Five Men and Pompey, The Beginning of Wisdom, Spanish Bayonet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balladeer | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

Taken all in all "Smiles is fair enough in the musical comedy world, though the final result does not justify the amount of talent that went into its preparation. The glorified girls are a good stimulant to eyesight weakened by over study. As for the beach pajamas in the bar room scene. Sssh...

Author: By C. C. P., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/1/1930 | See Source »

...Gary. When the new company was formed last week it was announced that he will be its chairman. Other of his activities include a directorship on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, vice-chairmanship of Commerce Trust Co. of Kansas City (largest bank in loth Federal Reserve District). Deprived of eyesight for several years by an accident, he went to no college, but was tutored in the science of telephony, accounting, commercial law. Now he golfs, motors, fishes, hunts. His summers are usually spent in a palatial home at Madeline Island, Lake Superior, where plies his yacht. In running his business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Transamerica into Telephones | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...course is given for prospective teachers of the blind and workers among them and is designed to present in a short period a comprehensive survey of the field of work. It emphasizes the problems which arise in the teaching of children who have little or no eyesight and supplies the background that will dignify the subject in the teacher's mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LECTURE ON EDUCATION OF BLIND HELD TODAY | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

This course, given for prospective teachers of the blind and workers among them is designed to present in a short time a comprehensive survey of the field of work. It emphasizes the problems which arise in the teaching of children who have little or no eyesight and supplies the background that will dignify the subject in the teacher's mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COURSE ON EDUCATION OF BLIND STARTS TOMORROW | 9/25/1930 | See Source »

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