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...false whiskers, page 5 a peepshow. Other features: a two-way editorial ("Can this go on? Sure! No!"), a page of letters to readers ("instead of printing letters from readers who tell us how lousy our magazine is"). The back cover, an "acquaintance maker," says: "Yoo hoo! How's about a date tonight? (All you have to do is take a seat opposite a pretty girl and hold the magazine so that she can see this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ballyhoo's Baby | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...After the game I wanted to meet you and also get your autograph, but circumstances prevented it. (Boo hoo!--'I'm not crying, that's rain in my eyes'). You know something--I've always been an ardent Navy fan in the past, but now suddenly find myself following the Yales. What's the answer? ('Can it be the gypsy in my soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Jealous of Heroes Of Gridiron, Letter Reveals | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

Calling attention to typhus, smallpox, typhoid, dysentery, meningitis, diphtheria, tuberculosis and venereal disease, the League's Health Committee pessimistically declared: "The diseases enumerated above do not exhaust the list of possible epidemics which may result from military operations in China or from their repercussions." Dr. Victor Hoo Chi-tsai, China's representative on the Health Committee, asked that anti-epidemic units be sent to China without delay. For this the League's Assembly immediately provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plagues of China | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...species of Panamanian civet cat called by the Chiriqui Indians the "Hoo-Hoo-Nah" was named Bassaricyon pauli by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences after its discoverer, Amateur Explorer Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr., Harvard classmate & friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose Philadelphia banking family have been generous Academy patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer," are abomina tions which insult his profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Engineer | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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