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...later received a Nobel Prize), the late great Dr. William Henry Welch (1849-1934). The salutes to Dr. Libman filled three Libman Anniversary Volumes. Dr. Welch, who wrote the introduction, needed ten epithets for his hero: "Teacher, investigator, writer, skilled physician, exemplar and promoter of scientific research, generous helper of fellow-workers and pupils, guide, leader and friend of a devoted band of disciples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Billings Lecturer | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

Thus he is a very useful helper to the New Deal. When he dropped a hint, to Franklin Roosevelt's annoyance, that Congressmen would be doing the President a favor if they passed the Bonus over his veto, there is little doubt that he was trying to be politically helpful by killing the Bonus issue before the next election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Commonsense | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

...home in the Black Mesa Bar-B-Q as he was in Hannibal's tent (The Road to Rome) or post-War Austria (Reunion in Vienna), Playwright Sherwood has given a humorous and dramatic three-dimensional panorama of the hamburg and gas-peddling Maples, their young, ex-fullback helper, the rich and insufferable Chisholms who drive up in their Duesenberg limousine. Things really begin to hum when Duke Mantee's mob arrives at the front end of a nation-wide manhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 14, 1935 | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

Born 50 years ago in Dublin, Sean O'Casey did not learn to read until he was 12. He earned his bread selling news papers, grew up to be a bricklayer's helper, a stonebreaker and dock hand. Like R. C. Sherriff (Journey's End), he became interested in the theatre through a group of amateurs. "Everyone was getting tired of the Abbey plays," says he. "so I decided to write one for them." The amateurs as well as the Abbey turned the play down, but William Butler Yeats wrote an en couraging letter. O'Casey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 5, 1934 | 11/5/1934 | See Source »

...collect royalties for songwriters and com posers whose works were then being bandied from one cafe to another with never a penny's profit to the men who made them. At first it was uphill sledding bu. Victor Herbert had a smart attorney named Nathan Burkan and a willing helper named Eugene Howard Buck, who collaborated on 20 Ziegfeld Follies. Under George Maxwell, its first president, and now under Gene Buck, A. S. C. A. & P. has prospered mightily. It has brought and won more than 1,000 suits against cinema houses, theatres, hotels and restaurants which used songs without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: U. S. v. A. S. C. A. & P. | 9/10/1934 | See Source »

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