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Reynolds, who retired as president of the bank last Jan. 1. After spending his 64th birthday in California, where he first met Mrs. Reynolds and played halfback on the powerful Stanford football team of 1894, Banker Reynolds was back making work for himself as a First National director last March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jul. 12, 1937 | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Engagements followed as a matter of course, but mostly in Negro schools and churches. In 1930 she gambled on a trip to Germany, studied intensively for a few months, finally hired a hall for $500. Critics then pronounced her a full-fledged artist, began to heap superlatives on her voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Colored Contralto | 1/13/1936 | See Source »

2) The proclamation of a "President's Week" by . . . ceremonious Governor Blanton ("The Sphynx") Winship, was considered a political move of the Governor to catch the Presidential eye, did not arouse any enthusiasm among levelheaded Puerto Ricans.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Author Brailsford differs from the peerage of panaceatic prattlers in his levelheaded, often ironic detachment. Though he is a Briton, he can take a truly-international view of disarmament: ''It would be unfair to question the sincerity of the general wish to disarm one's neighbors." Though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Socialist Answer | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

"Absolutely levelheaded; a great businessman," is what his friends call him. His estate at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. is named "Sleepless Hollow." His motorboat, which is very fast and makes terrifying turns when the owner is at the wheel, is called "The Four Hawaiians," but Mr. Cook has not mentioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 2, 1933 | 10/2/1933 | See Source »

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