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...nation's attention to Kansas. Alert for a man who might put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House. William Randolph Hearst sent a flying squad of investigators into Kansas to comb Alf Landon's private and public record. Reporting satisfactorily, they were followed by a flock of ace Hearst writers and the great Landon Boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Kansas Candidate | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...piece of paper with straight lines to form boxes. She recently beat Oscar Olsen, a member of the Swedish Senate, at squares twice in succession. She has a doll from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant requests for her own autograph, she collects those of other celebrities. Her contacts have enabled her to assemble one of the best collections in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Peewee's Progress | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...solemn procession he would return to the Pauline chapel, then bear the Host back to the Sistine chapel for the Mass of the Presanctified. It was made known last week that the Pope would not celebrate Easter Mass in St. Peter's nor bestow public blessings on his flock as he did last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rome's Easter | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

Students from far & wide flock to Rochester's School of Medicine & Dentistry, headed by Nobel-Prizewinning Pathologist George Hoyt Whipple, and to Rochester's Eastman School of Music, whose Director is Composer Howard Hanson (Merry Mount). But of the College's 1,100 students, 75% come from within 50 mi. of Rochester, N. Y. More than half are day students who leave their starkly handsome Genesee River campus at 4 p. m. like factory hands at the end of a day's shift. Alumni have groused about the absence of "college spirit," the lacklustre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Rochester Roundup | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...repair work has been done, largely directed towards bracing departmental discipline, Sociology is greatly handicapped in pulling itself up by its own bootstraps. When such measures have been taken, unhappy concentrators, who have discovered too late their mistake about the "easiness" of this field, will no longer continue to flock to tutoring schools on the Square in numbers which put the other departments to shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAPPED VIGOR | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

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