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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WORE MISS BENNETT'S DRESS AND THEREFORE COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN OF AMPLER PROPORTIONS THAN MISS BENNETT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...change which brings Miss Littlefield to Chicago next season is accompanied, according to President Whitney, by a large financial saving to the Chicago company. Incidentally, neither Mr. Whitney nor Manager Paul Longone has ever seen Miss Littlefield or her ballet perform up to this date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1938 | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

Johnny Roosevelt is the gayest, vaguest, gentlest, most winning of the Presidential sons. Anne is no great beauty but full of spirit, a good sailor, swimmer and dancer. When Johnny first presented her to his father, he said: "This is Miss Schmaltz." "Oh!" exclaimed the President, "I thought it was Zilch." The late F. Haven Clark, Anne's father, was a Boston banker. He had a place on Campobello Island, N. B. straight across the road from the Roosevelts'. But Anne became engaged to another boy, John interested in another girl. Not till last year did they take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Johnny's Day | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...year-old Carlton Cook, amateur lyricist, artist and poet of Denver, Colo., happened to read in a paper the text of a speech by Kitty Cheatham, a folk-song singer, which was delivered last year during International Women's Week in Budapest. "Can you imagine the effect," Miss Cheatham had asked, "if all the nations of the world would join together and sing Hallelujah?" These words were practically a revelation to Lyricist Cook. He too, like Bandleader Lopez, had long brooded over the U. S. National Anthem's imperfections, particularly deprecated such sworded sentiments as "the rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Hallelujah | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

...year and the biggest individual buyer of them is the only woman buyer in the industry. She is short, blonde Sue Fitzgerald, who got her start as a stenographer in a tannery, now buys a million or more hides a year for International Shoe Co. Miss Fitzgerald, like most other representatives of big tanneries and shoe companies, does her buying in Chicago, centre of the packing industry of which cattle hides are a $100,000,000-a-year byproduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tanned Futures | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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