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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Charles Austin Beard is a tall, lean, deaf, white-haired, Indiana-born Yankee with a piercing eye, a commanding presence and a gruff voice. For 25 of his 63 years he has been a powerful influence among U. S. historians by virtue of works like Economic Interpretation of the Constitution. His wife Mary, who collaborated with him on The Rise of American Civilization, is a historian in her own right (A Short History of the American Labor Movement), a lecturer, a champion of women's rights. His son William published his first book, Create the Wealth, in 1936. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Family | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Editor of Building America is lean Dr. James E. Mendenhall, 34, a protégé and collaborator of Teachers College's famed Professor Harold Rugg. Dr. Mendenhall went from Kansas to the Lincoln School as a research man in 1928, conceived Building America with Stanford's Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Building America | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

...Lean, ascetic Painter Biddle, in a suit so wrinkled it looked shrunk, warned the audience that the intelligent supervision of the WPA art project which he helped to found would be as precarious as the project itself while it remained an emergency measure. Discussion followed on what has become a great desideratum of politically conscious artists who want better standing than work relief affords-the Federal Arts Bill, a proposal for an arrangement more permanent and dignified than WPA, introduced in Congress last session by Representative John Coffee of Washington. Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Congress | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...excise tax. Any producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lump, Egg, Pea | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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