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...their foothold, how easy it would be, in times of genuine crisis. to ... reduce their freedom to the slender confines of the Constitutional verbiage." When President Roosevelt last year barred Correspondent Paul Mallon from White House press conferences, only one to speak out was the Times's Charles Kurd. Moral is, thinks Clark, that Washington correspondents need an ethical organization like the American Medical Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Washington Coverage | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Pillaging the Iranian countryside were mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Boots for the Scotsman | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...cards, including a Foujita, a Rivera. To its patrons the Associated American Artists Gallery in Manhattan sells cards in limited editions; its sales last year totaled 350,000. Of its 16 subjects, the four in color are all thoroughly summery: canvases by Schreiber, Ernest Fiene, Peter Kurd, Nicolai Cikovsky. The Schreiber, Mississippi Moon, shows a whizzing horse & buggy. The American Artists Group got the same Schreiber horse & buggy, whizzing along in a snow scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christmas Cards | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...took his cue from the suggestions of the Society's president, Dr. Lee Maidment Kurd of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Salt Pork for Nosebleeds | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...greatest record of any woman golfer in the world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell Kurd Howe, 55, is still as British as tweed, plays golf three times a week, knits stockings, rides a bicycle, helps her husband raise Jersey cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Senior Golfers | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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