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...occasionally have declined to eat at the same table with the unpolished cameramen. Sports writers he divides into two schools-"Gee Whizz!'' and "Aw Nuts!''-and clearly prefers the latter. Toward press agents, City Editor Walker is tolerant: "Some are so useful and companionable that all newspaper men welcome them and their messages; others are such chiselers and bores that reporters and editors take fright at their approach." Edward L. Bernays, nephew of "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido, Dr. Sigmund Freud," is more important in Stanley Walker's estimation than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Room Prophet | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...minutes before the play's end a pert usher in a pert brown cap and close-fitting brown bodice utters her first and almost her last line: "Gee whiz, Mae was like delirious. She kept laughing and saying it was a big joke. Her baby's got no father." The pert usher is played by Jean Bellows, daughter of the late great Artist George Bellows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 8, 1934 | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Last year the two best builders of U. S. racing planes were Zantford D. ("Granny") Granville and James Robert ("Jimmy") Wedell. Between their fat little Gee-Bee's and Wedell-Williams Specials it was a toss-up in any race. Last February "Granny" Granville was killed in one of his own planes at Spartanburg, S. C. (TIME, Feb. 26). Last week Jimmy Wedell was killed in a Gypsy Moth near Patterson, La. A student taking his first flight was believed to have "frozen" to the stick, stalled the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Death of Wedell | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...General had another proud moment. He and his children, Betty, n, Anne, 8 and Jimmy. 6, boarded the S. S. Conte di Savoia at Quarantine. "Who's there?" demanded a woman's voice when Jimmy pounded on a stateroom door. " "It's us, mama, and oh gee, you ought to see my report card. It's got two stars on it. Hey, let us in, will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Proud Pleasures | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

...Doesn't look anything like Morning side Heights, uncle Harry. Gee in Columbia there's always shouting and throwing of bricks. The students there seem to have some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/28/1934 | See Source »

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