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Nearly half a century has passed since the Times first wrote of Hofmann. then a shock-haired youth of 10, who made his U. S. debut playing the Beethoven Concerto at the Metropolitan Opera House. Then the Times said: "Many people leapt to their feet. Pianists of repute were moved almost to tears. The child had astonished the assembly. He was a marvel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prodigy at 60 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...once removed a piece of the Buck thumb. Spitfire was caged on the deck of a Chinese-manned boat bound for Singapore. Nearby sat a Chinese butcher sharpening a knife. The butcher plunged his knife into a pig's throat, Spitfire smelled blood, burst from his cage, leapt over the side. Beastcatcher Buck felt his hair-roots tingle as a shark's fin cut the water near the swimming leopard. The shark struck, threw the leopard clear of the water, holding to his hindquarters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beastcatcher | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...impossible to go on, too late to turn back. They would make for the field at Paterson nearby. Cautiously Pilot Vale flew as low as he dared, straining for the welcome sight of wind-sock or hangar-roof. After a nerve-wrenching period of groping his heart leapt. There on the ground was a plane! Pilot Vale carefully swung around into the wind, put his ship into a glide, and-Crash! . . . The fuselage of the Vales' plane, with its two occupants uninjured was wedged tight in the branches of a tree. Wings & motor were strewn about. The plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Decoy | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

Near Chicago Richard Stanley Thompson, 4, went wading, got in too deep, was brought out lifeless. When artificial respiration failed, his father, Traffic Manager Stanley Thompson of Transamerican Airline Corp. in Chicago, was notified. Father Thompson seized a pulmotor. leapt into an airplane, rushed to the scene, after an hour's stubborn work restored his son to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Hoch | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...things were said about the condition of Pynchon & Co. Widely known was the fact that Chase National Bank, perhaps assisted by another institution, had seen the firm through heavy trouble with loans estimated at from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000. Early last week the old rumor again leapt forth. Heavy selling came into those securities of which Pynchon & Co. and its customers have been fond. Yet many people thought that the Chase would not desert Pynchon & Co. And even the day of the suspension it was known that arrangements had been made to carry the firm along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fall of Pynchon | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

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