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Birth of a son in Shanghai last week to Edda, Countess Ciano (nee Mussolini) made // Duce for the first time a grandparent. Parent Count Ciano is the Italian consul at Shanghai. In Rome last week virile, vigorous Grandpa Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Grandpapa | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

...worse he'll be too tired to eat. He's so old and stiff, he isn't worth his keep, He would go to bed but he'd be too tired to sleep. There was a time so I am told He ran away with Grandpa Cole, He smashed the buggy on the pole, But that was long ago. Now the tired old horse is happy in his way, For he dreams he still can hear his master say, "Turn tid-di-ly um bum, Giddap!" Composer Woodin has six grandchildren for whom he has built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turn Tiddily Tycoon | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Professor Albert Abraham Michelson, famed University of Chicago scientist (light speed), was last week discovered playing a tune he had "written several years ago for a child." The composition, "Grandpa's Lullaby," has a lively air, no words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Grandpa | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

...Another beneficiary is Eleanor Post Hutton, headlined debutante. Scorning both alcohol and Grandpa Post's Postum, she consumes eight to ten cups of coffee a day during the party season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bluepoints, Inc. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called "Grandpa" by other convicts. In 1923 he was supposed to have speculated by mail in the stock market, plunging on Moon Motors, Ventura Oil. When he left jail last week, he carried with him the sum of $1.60. At the State Farm Pomeroy sulked in the sunshine. He was displeased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Butcher's Butcher | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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