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...Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman of Standard Brands' finance committee, was booming out his opinion of her and her suit. Halting a No. 3 iron in midair, Mrs. Doubleday pricked up her ears, listened, flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan for slander, she told what she overheard: "On the practice tee, Major Fleischmann, in a loud voice, stated . . .: 'What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 18, 1935 | 2/18/1935 | See Source »

...appears to be standing still. Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have used mercury vapor stroboscopes in connection with a super-fast camera to record the impact of a golf club with the ball, the splash of a drop of milk, a shattering glass bulb, a cat whipping over in midair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stop-Light | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...morning later he was again in Washington nonchalantly catching the balls of politics that for five days he had left in midair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Travels, Public & Private | 6/11/1934 | See Source »

...piece by Arthur Brisbane was mostly questions left hanging midair. Paul Mallon took the reader behind some Washington scenes, with few surprises, and another page summarized the week in Washington with no surprises at all. "These Times" was another review, of events all over the nation and all run in together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newcomers | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...into trouble. When Minnie is in danger he rescues her. Toward her he smiles a vast lopsided smile that wavers now and then with embarrassment, returns soon to the simpleton grin. He turns everything to use. He wrestles off the edge of a cliff, wrestles on in midair. Suddenly he looks down in horror, races back across space to the cliff, resumes wrestling with complete concentration. He flees interminably before a lion which loses its teeth when it nips him. Mickey claps himself into the teeth and turns on the lion which flees abjectly, its toothless mouth a parched wrinkle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Profound Mouse | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

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