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In Paris, to which the French brought him when he was nine years old, jolly little Bao Dai tried his best to learn everything, mastered modern languages and mathematics, took tennis lessons from Henri Cochet, learned from stern French cavalry tutors to jump a horse. In the end His Majesty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANNAM: Mandarins in Batches | 10/3/1932 | See Source »

Customs officers at Chicago found liquor worth $2,500 aboard Kenkora II, black-hulled yacht owned by jolly Kenneth G. Smith, president of Pepsodent Co.. when it returned from a cruise in Canadian waters. Said Mr. Smith: "It was for medicinal purposes. . . . I didn't know, however, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

In March 1929 tall, jolly Pianist-Conductor Ernest Schelling was rehearsing his "Impressions From An Artist's Life" with the New York-Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini. He banged his thumb on the keys, had to stop playing. On his thumb appeared a felon which turned into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Felon | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

"Attaboy, Jimmy! . . . You show'em! Jimmy! . . . Good luck, Jimmy! . . . Get in there and fight, Jimmy!" The friendly farewells of some 5,000 raucous New Yorkers echoed in the Grand Central Station last week as their saucy little Mayor. James John Walker, entrained for Albany. A few hostile boos were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Susanna At Albany | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

A jolly, rugged prelate, red-cloaked and red-hatted, was whizzed upward in Manhattan's Empire State Building one day last week.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Verdier's Visit | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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