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...Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing. After 2 hr. 18 min. of noise, flying dirt and squirting oil, Los Angeles' Ronney Householder flashed across the finish line, followed by Detroit's Glenn Meyers and Indiana's Ted Hartley. Winner House-holder's average speed was 65.2 m.p.h. To dapper, mustached 29-year-old Ronney Householder, who grew up with the sport and has been carrying his doodlebug around to races in a specially built truck for four years, his $1,500 share of the prize money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doodlebug Derby | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Carol Layton (Jean Harlow), bright sprig of an old family of Saratoga horse fanciers, comes home from England engaged to a New York socialite named Hartley Madison (Walter Pidgeon), whose bankroll is more impressive than his sophistication. To Carol's father's crony, Bookmaker Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) this is good news indeed. He takes it for granted that Carol's only possible object in becoming affianced to a rich nincompoop is to provide financial succor for her father and his friends. Actually Duke, who falls in love with Carol, is quite right but Carol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...this manifesto last week were fixed the names of eight greater and lesser U. S. artists: Alfred Stieglitz, Alexander Brook, William Gropper, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan. Ever since copyright laws have been in existence it has been possible for artists or owners of pictures to copyright them, prevent their reproduction without due authority. Explaining last week's manifesto, grey-haired Spokesman John Sloan, famed painter of New York street scenes, longtime president of the Society of Independent Artists, pointed out that what he and his distinguished friends and their recently engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rights Reserved | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

Died. Rev. William Hartley Carnegie, 76, rector of London's swank St. Margaret's Church, since 1913 Canon of Westminster; in London. In 1916 he married the widow of Statesman Joseph Chamberlain, thus became the stepfather of Statesmen Neville and Sir Austen Chamberlain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Berlin six years ago; Japan's beaming Professor Masawo Kamo, who has a flair for oratory in broken English accompanied by dra matic gestures; Britain's horsey-looking Evelyn Hugh Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth, Governor of the Imperial College of Science & Technology and Alderman of London; Sir Harold Hartley, round-faced research director of the London Midland & Scottish Railway; Sir Archibald Page, smart technician who is head of the County of London Electric Supply Co.; Mrs. Gertrude Ruth Ziani de Ferranti, widow of England's famed electrical inventor; France's Minister of Public Works Armand Galliot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Third Power, Second Dams | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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