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...would kill the Tribune's publisher, Col. Robert Rutherford ("Ber-tie") McCormick "if he libels me again," the newspaper's lawyers were loath to produce their principal in court. When Plaintiff Parker insisted on having Publisher McCormick as witness, Process Server J. C. Justice was dispatched to inform Col. McCormick that his presence was required. Mr. Justice got nowhere against the Colonel's buffers, but when he was about to describe his experiences in court, defense counsel suddenly produced Col. McCormick voluntarily. After pessimistically informing the court that Mr. Parker's uncle and another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Parker v. Tribune | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...would like to inform you of an error in the Jan. ii issue of your fine magazine. In that issue there is a picture of two of the famous scientific Shull brothers looking at a kymograph. You have erred in the captioning of this. The one using the apparatus is a Government botanist (J. M. Shull) as you said, but the other, Dr. G. H. Shull, is not a geneticist from the U. of Michigan but is instead a plant geneticist of Princeton University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 8, 1937 | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent burst of sound and color to demonstrate His superiority to the other rulers and to inform the audience that He would return again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sisters v. Satan | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

That the Davieses may leave Moscow long before their cream is gone was last week prime Washington chitchat. No secret is it that that fragile Anglophile, Robert Worth Bingham, who failed to inform the State Department of the Simpson Crisis until it exploded in Commons, has impressed his superiors as something less than an ideal Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Should he retire soon as expected, what more natural than that the able husband of one of the nation's richest women should hope to succeed to his glittering job? Attesting their eligibility, Joe Davies & wife have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Birdseye Blurb | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...obstacle to which radiomen and educators alike devoted much earnest thought last week was the inability of educators to fill free time with interesting programs. President David Sarnoff of Radio Corp. of America bluntly declared: "Radio programs can be created to inform the mind and elevate the spirit, but when one seeks to impose upon them the requirement that they also furnish mental training and discipline, one narrows their appeal and risks the dispersion of the invisible audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Radio Conference | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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