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...LOON'S GEOGRAPHY?Hendrik Willem Van Loon?Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baedeker Hollandaise | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process by starting as a painter, ending as a dancer (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Period | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...have forgotten which, as I find them lying around my mother's apartment here, a week or more old, and read the wisecracks without looking at the dates. you copied an article in the division called People, from the Herald Tribune to the effect that Hendrik van Loon, Hendrik Willem van Loon to be exact, had arrived in America and groaned at the prospect of his son's becoming an interpretative dancer (TIME, July 20). And that son you called Hendrik Willem van Loon Jr. That's all very well except for two mistakes, first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

WILLEM GERARD VAN LOON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...voice of Horse Doctor Doyle saying: "I don't want to go to jail." Max D. Steuer, one of Tammany's slickest and most willing legal henchman, quickly announced that it was he who had telephoned from the Curry apartment. He had, he said, telephoned to his wife at Loon Lake. But the New York Telephone Co. declared that calls-to Loon Lake never go through Lake Placid. Lawyer Steuer then hedged on his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Indian in the Woodpile | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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