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...broad, jovial and aggressive, Dr. Sigerist is just half the age of the man he succeeds-41. Born in Paris of Swiss parents, he studied philology before medicine, specialized in Oriental languages. He speaks and thinks in German, French, Italian, English, can write in most of the others. He spent the four War years in the Swiss army, was graduated in medicine from Zurich in 1921 at the age of 30. Three years later he became professor of medical history there. The next year he went to Leipzig, remained there until Johns Hopkins got him. He has travelled over most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Historian | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...runs Delaware, first State to ratify the Constitution. On the President's left in golden spangles, gold shoes and jade earrings was sharp, smart, colorful Mrs. Gifford Pinchot who had just been defeated for Congress in Pennsylvania (see p. 15). On leaving the White House, Governor Roosevelt, always jovial with the Press, when asked what he had discussed with President Hoover, said: "One may not talk when leaving the White House. I've been there before." Governor Pinchot was asked if he talked politics. "Not a pol," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: First Fishing | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Jovial Hotelman Sam Shaw of Manhattan put up another $25 in prize money last week and the Society of Fakirs was reborn out of the Art Students' League, with an exhibition, auction and dance. The original Fakirs, founded 40 years ago, was a convivial society of League students who wanted to raise money to give scholarships during the summer to deserving fellow members. They did this with an art exhibition of "fakes"; parodies of well known pictures, generally those exhibited in the National Academy, and a costume ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fakirs Resurrected | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Last week, no longer spat-wearing but still jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hangover | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Newshawks swooped upon the Harmony Truth Centre, found Citizen Smart jovial and garrulous in his defiance of the law. He put on an old Army uniform posed by his Hoover fence. He revealed the books which the Smarts will soon read: Pilgrim's Progress, Emerson, Byron Shelley, What a Young Man Should Know What a Young Woman Should Know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Smart Smarts | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

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