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...Springs was proud of Sid McMath, home-town boy, ex-Marine officer, winner of the Silver Star, courageous politician. As prosecuting attorney, he had broken the 20-year rule of Mayor Leo Patrick McLaughlin, whose bland refusal to enforce the law had made Hot Springs a sanctuary for every gambler, gangster and fast-dollar man in the country. As soon as he took office on the first of the year, the new prosecutor closed Hot Springs' gambling spots and got McLaughlin himself indicted for corruption in office. McLaughlin did not even try to run for reelection. Dopesters rated Sidney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: My Wife & My Father | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Early one morning last week, Sid McMath rushed into his office. His shirt and trousers were rumpled, his face haggard and unshaven. The reporters were waiting. McMath had two folded sheets of yellow paper in his hand. On them, he had written a statement in pencil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARKANSAS: My Wife & My Father | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Most famed of all amateur astronomers is Robert Raynolds McMath, 51, who spends as little time as possible as chairman of Detroit's Motors Metal Manufacturing Co., as much as possible in the elaborate McMath-Hulbert Observatory near Pontiac. Fifteen years ago, Engineer McMath built a small 4-inch telescope for his father, became so fascinated at his first view of Jupiter's satellites and the moon's mountains that he has been designing astronomical instruments ever since. He has made the world's best motion pictures of solar phenomena, and his films are now used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Amateur Stargazers | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Miss McMath. Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Mo. on July 16, 1911, just about the time Irene Castle was starting her U. S. career. Before Ginger was born, her mother, Mrs. Lela Emogene Owens McMath, took to visiting art galleries and other prenatal pastures. She did this because she was convinced that she was about to bestow something unusual on the world, and while not sure of the effects of prenatal influences, she did not wish to miss any bets. Mrs. McMath's premonitions were confirmed. As soon as she had given birth to her daughter, she visited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Ginger Rogers was named Virginia Katherine McMath. Shortly after her birth, her mother separated from her electrical engineer husband, Eddins McMath, and, taking small Ginger, went to Kansas City, where she got a $9-a-week job as typist in Montgomery Ward. Thereafter Ginger's childhood was nomadic. Jobs took her mother all over the country but always nearer the movies. In 1919, Mrs. McMath, by this time divorced, married a Dallas insurance man named John Rogers. In 1922 the family moved to Fort Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dancing Girl | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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