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...green eyeshade. Vexed by a stupid blunder* he would growl out loud, sometimes stamp his feet. Pleased by an apt phrase, he would vent a guffaw that apprised TIME'S writers that a new phrase had been canonized in TIME style. Disdainful of "gumchewers," he always chewed gum. Contemptuous of dead literature, he constantly held up Homer as an example to TIME'S staff. Impatient of slow waiters, he disrupted many a staid restaurant by waving a napkin over his head to get attention. Generous, he would never lend a friend less than $5, said...
Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...
...member of the Uplifters' Club in Los Angeles, and of the Sons of the American Revolution, he chews gum continually, claims that only the late Will Rogers used more...
...father showed how he had been hardened by years of struggle against neighbors as mean as himself, quick-shooting cattlemen, sandstorms, dishonest politicians. It made hash of sentimental pioneer legends. But it presented a far kindlier version of life on the sod-house frontier than does Slo-gum House, which shows Gulla's successful villainy still ripening in her rotten old age. Overburdened with violence to a point that occasionally touches burlesque, Slogum House is nevertheless written with power, gives a clearer picture of the wild environment than of the people who fought to make it better...
...hypodermic of War, Willis Carrier had to content himself with conditioning munitions factories so that bombs would not go off till they had been properly dropped on foreigners. By 1919 aviation was boisterously adolescent but air conditioning, though becoming essential for such industries as rayon, cinema film, chewing gum, chocolate candy, was still an infant...