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That night Widower James's dark-tressed, 22-year-old daughter Dorothy began her duties as Pennsylvania's First Lady. To the inaugural ball in magnificent Zembo Mosque thronged Pennsylvania's very fattest cats: ex-Senator Joseph L. Grundy, chairman of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association ; Oilman Joseph N. Pew Jr.; Publisher Moses Annenberg (who drank Coca-Colas with a pretty legislative secretary); John M. Flynn, who used to front for Joe Grundy at the State House. A figure new and interesting to Pennsylvanians was Colonel Carl L. Estes, a Texas publisher who was reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Republicans' Return | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...fattest supporting role in Kentucky is naturally that of a hot-tempered, horse-breeding old Kentucky squire. The picture's greatest virtue is that Walter Brennan plays him, chin whiskers and all, as though Peter Goodwin were a real human being, not a stock character. Typical sequence: Peter Goodwin selecting, from a collection of mediocre two-year-olds, the one that has "the look of eagles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines, has put 33 of its men in airport weather offices. It has also extended and improved its warning services for hurricanes, fruit frosts, forest fires, floods. And new Chief Reichelderfer will find his current budget the fattest in years: a trifle short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Weatherman | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...sets (at $2.50) and is presently being simplified. From "Flash News" Editor Spiro did learn, however, that there is money in games-if you don't play them. Soon he secured rights to solitaire "Auto bridge" (a British invention) and organized a production company with himself holding the fattest share. Now his sideline has become a thriving business with several hundred employes occupying a spacious loft building in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spiro Games | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...more than welcomed by the Leftist Government if he has never actually taken up arms against it and last week 170 of the original 473 Deputies gathered in Barcelona. A newcomer, who has never before attended sessions in Leftist territory, was Rightist Deputy Pedro Rico who was Mayor ("The Fattest Mayor in Europe") of Madrid when the war began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 30 Miles Out | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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