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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops the column, Old Tack, 53, fresh from a visit to Washington, made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Texans already know. He is popular with his 511 employes. He pays his workers well for an oil & cattle town publisher. Each year his employes have owned more and he less of his publishing properties. (His holdings are now down to 20%.) Only last week he let it be known that next January he would turn management over to some of his old hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...German Government station stepped up its power, came in louder and chummier than General Electric's broadcasts from Schenectady. Last week General Electric announced a crushing countermove. Ready to go into action within a month is a new 100-kilowatt shortwave transmitter, most powerful in the U. S., known as "Big Bertha." It has directional antennae that will enable it to focus its beam on particular areas. Through G. E.'s two Schenectady stations, W2XAF and W2XAD, Big Bertha will broadcast in Portuguese to South America's eastern half, in Spanish to the western half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big Bertha | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...does not satisfy her, she will casually observe that it is "stinking lousy," or of someone who bores her, "he stinks." A good dancer, she is fond of other good dancers like slinky Cesar Romero, lanky Lee Bowman. There was talk of a Bowman-Henie romance until it became known that Sonja, noting Bowman's high hairline, had baldly advised him to get fitted for a toup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...installed softspoken, aristocratic George Henry Howard as president of the new utility combine. Howard was one of the smartest graduates of the informal law school that the late Dwight Morrow ran at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett's Manhattan lawshop, before Morrow became a Morgan partner. Howard's best known contemporary in the Morrow schoolroom was his close friend, modest Floyd Bostwick Odium, with whom he collaborated in founding Atlas Corp., top-flight investment trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENT TRUSTS: Change of Life | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

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