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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heirs. There are five Hearst sons (no daughters) of whom two -Twins William Elbert & Randolph Apperson-are too young to be studied as successors to their father's power & glory (but not too young to borrow one of his airplanes last week to fetch a Pittsburgh girl to the Lawrenceville Junior prom). One of the other three, fat George, 29, is senior-and least likely on his showing to date to handle the Hearst empire when the Chief passes. Nicknamed "Fanny." good-natured Son George has been tried out on the papers in New York and San Francisco, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

Daughters of Jays, Biddies, Iselins, Pinchots and Cheneys have gone to Miss Walker's strict, impersonal, well-regulated school. Day after the second fire, family automobiles rolled into Simsbury to fetch the girls home. But Dr. Earle Terry Smith, husband of Founder Ethel Walker. announced that he had obtained the use of the country club on Fisher's Island off New London, that the school would carry on there until June. Meantime State police and constables guarded the school property. The fires (loss $300,000) had both been started in windward corners of basements. Not only that: within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fire in Simsbury | 4/24/1933 | See Source »

...What do we get for all that money? We get a huge array of expensive buildings, a huge horde of expensive quacks, an immeasurable ocean of buncombe . . . high-salaried experts in solving the insoluble and achieving the impossible ... a truant officer to fetch [the pupil] and police him, a dietitian to save him from scurvy and pellagra, a surgeon to remove his adenoids and tonsils, a dentist to plug his teeth, and a psychologist to chart the movements, if any, of his IQ . . . multitudes of special classes for backward pupils . . . struggling with the uneducable ... ten or twelve years of intensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mencken v. Gogues | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...course, part of the romance of bookselling is the monetary aspect. While it is a mistake to think that booksellers always make a prodigeous profit, fortune may be lurking around who-knows-what corner. I have said that a copy of Incondita would fetch $25,000. I might find one on a bookstall or in an attic next week, or nex year. Or if not that volume, something else of great value...

Author: By C. A. S. jr., | Title: Editorial | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...Nurse Newcomer, who had taken lessons in parachute jumping, planned to bail out as a gesture in honor of First Nurse Florence Nightingale. Dressed in a white riding habit, she carried a dress which she forgot at the last moment and had to climb out of the plane and fetch, explaining: "It would be terrible if I were to be presented to the King and I didn't have a dress along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Jumping Nurse | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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