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Until last week, U. S. citizens could reasonably assume that Arizona's pentecostal Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst was a nonpareil when it came to dressed-up language. Advices from Oregon showed that it ran in the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Senator Ashurst's Brother | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Senator Ashurst's Brother | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Littlest worries: losing your fountain pen, growing up, having bad dreams, not finding a job after leaving school, getting bad marks in conduct, not sleeping at night, robbers, choking, getting married, kidnappers, world coming to an end, witches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Worries of Childhood | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Back as a leader in the bar-fixture business, new but important in the soda-fountain business, B-B-C nevertheless depends on bowling and billiards for three-fourths of its $13,745,522 (1939) sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Spittoons Out, Profits Up | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...theoretical physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Powerful Brain | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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