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While priestly lips formed the Latin syllables of a majestic chant, a small wad of chewing gum issued from the lips of Signor de Palois became imperceptibly affixed to the tip of his whalebone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPAL STATE: Whaleboning in St. Peter's | 1/27/1930 | See Source »

...people who have talked themselves into print, one of the most successful is Cowboy-Funnyman Will Rogers. The technique of a gum-chewing commentator ("Wal, all I know is what I see in the newspapers"), which he developed in vaudeville and which landed him downstage in the Ziegfeld Follies, also got him a job as a daily paragrapher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...chair to Coolidge the other day. The former President, being a man of very few words, won't thank them until they have sent two beds, a table, a rocker and some kitchen utensils." On the stage, Eddie Cantor's props- comparable to Will Rogers' gum and spinning ropes-are blackface makeup and white-rimmed spectacles. He accentuates his lines with eye-googling and eccentric prancing. When he wrote his first book a year and a half ago (My Life Is in Your Hands, autobiography), he required the aid of a ghostwriter, one David Freedman. Publishers Simon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newscracker | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...President Stanley L. Metcalf of Better Brushes, Inc.; President R. C. Norberg of Willard Storage Battery Co.; President Henry C. Osborn of American Multigraph Sales Co.; President Stanley Adams Sweet of Sweet-Orr & Co., Inc. (overalls); President George Matthew Verity of American Rolling Mill Co. (iron); William Wrigley Jr. (gum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mail Order President | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...Lebanon, Ill., one Bertram Smith, college student, chewed 45 sticks of gum, broke the world's chewing gum record, got diabetes from excess of sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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