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Who best qualifies for the position of U. S. Poet? New England's Ralph Waldo Emerson and Long Island's Walt Whitman are doubtless the foremost candidates, with a few critics ranking California's Robinson Jeffers ahead of either. Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson are other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Milton for Poet | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

*But Wilfred John Funk, who whiles away his time writing jingles (TIME, Feb. 10). sometimes pretends to be a drinking man. A Funk jingle published last week:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

A shrewd mob psychologist is Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph George Ward, George V's Prime Minister in New Zealand.* Compulsory military training has lately been a hot subject for discussion in the Antipodes. Last fortnight Australia's new Labor Government abolished compulsion (TIME, Nov.11). Before the issue could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Salvation for Conchies | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

When a girl starts to learn golf in England the professional who gives her her first lesson usually begins by showing her some photographs of Joyce Wethered. Putting, chipping, driving. Miss Wethered's supple shadow has thus come to dominate women's golf abroad and, to a large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Broadstone | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Newsmen and Senators have a joint technique about secret sessions. When the Senate bells jingle three times, Superintendent James D. Preston of the Senate Press Gallery shooes all correspondents out of the gallery, closes its big double doors, locks them with an immense key and, for good measure, props a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Senate v. Press | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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