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...Marylander whose family has grown tobacco there since 1655. he has a strong craving for the gentleman farmer's life of herds, droves, flocks and bevies, of hunting, fishing and camping. His family estate lies close to Washington. But today he has little time for those avocations, or lor his family of four young sons. Wrote he last summer in his Reader's Digest trumpet call: ''If the eradication of syphilis were to be my one official duty during the next 20 years I should attempt it very confidently with a budget substantially less than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Great Pox | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...have a very earnest word to say to the German student," thundered Chancel lor Hitler's Minister for Education Bernhard Rust last week as that sober, pudgy schoolmaster warned fanatical National Socialist students to cease agitating against certain of their professors and get down to work. "I was greatly surprised to hear a student spokesman say that the student regards it as his duty ... to inspect professors and instructors thoroughly and bring to an end certain of their activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Agitators | 10/19/1936 | See Source »

Until Columbia University's trustees began to consume a Manhattan banquet last week, they scrupulously refused to emit the names of those to whom they had decided to award the annual Pulitzer Prizes lor Journalism and for belles-lettres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Next day constables cautioned Belgrave Square traffic to go slowly and quietly. Carpenters coming to work on a building two doors away beamed: ''Lor' love you, we'll put cotton wool on our hammers if the Duke wants us to." In the sun on No. 3's front stoop a big black cat leisurely washed itself. It was raining when Edward of Wales arrived to pay his respects to his latest nephew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: First Son of a Son | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...course, in a crowded city there is less excuse lor needless horn-blowing, but I feel sure that nearly everyone has owed his life at one time or another to the timely blast of an automotive horn. I uphold the saying "Rely on your brakes instead of your horn," but that axiom does not always apply. How does noiseless Mr. Brown expect to pass a lumbering motor truck on a narrow road? The driver would be only too glad to pull over if he knew someone wished to pass. IT IS NOT ONLY DISCOURTEOUS BUT DANGEROUS TO TRY TO PASS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

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