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...recorded not only exotic sounds which the average zoo-goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animal Language | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Even the least fastidious movie goer would not mistake his identity. . . . I fear your most admirable movie critic has fallen to the depths of grammatical hyperbole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...whether 75-year-old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab is still worth his $200,000 salary. The old steelmaster was on hand to give the meeting his blessing with an optimistic appreciation of the "complete cooperation and understanding between management and stockholders." Hardly had he finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert, had outlived his usefulness. Loudly seconded was this thought by Leopold B. Coshland, a stockholder who once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Apr. 26, 1937 | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...Also worthy of any gallery-goer's attention was a Derain show at the Brummer Gallery, a Reginald Marsh exhibition at the Rehn Galleries. Bushy-lipped walter Pach laid himself open to the annual attack of fellow art critics by showing his most recent water colors at the Kleemann Galleries. Durand-Ruel went down to their cellars and produced about a half million dollars worth of Renoirs, and at the Gallery of American Indian Art, a show of water colors went on view by the darling of Santa Fe's art colony, the plump and talented Pueblo squaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: 30 Shows | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Since the Catholic Church claims only 20,500,000 of the U. S.'s 127,785,000 inhabitants as members, and since Protestant attendance is estimated at less than 14,000,000, indication is that only one citizen in four is a church-goer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Running Downhill | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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