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A lover of classic art who calls Greece his second home, Maillol almost got into trouble on the Acropolis for trying to embrace a statue whose beauty intoxicated him. Like the Greeks, he is more interested in modeling the body than the face. His strapping, good-natured wife, who was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptors | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Wearing a short circular skirt and woolen shirt, her strokes as powerful as ever and her reflexes as quick, Oldster Sears amazed the galleries with her extraordinary stamina and agile court coverage, amused them with her rambunctious mannerisms and screaming but good-natured queries to the referee-as though he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand Old Girl | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Silver-haired, sharp-tongued, zealous Dr. Charles Giffin Pease, founder of the Non-Smokers' Protective League (he used to snatch cigars from the lips of subway smokers), celebrated his 85th birthday in his usual fashion, delivering a good-natured diatribe to newshawks against whiskey, wine, beer, capital punishment, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

That was good news for William Green, bad (but expected) news for John Lewis. For David Dubinsky, short, energetic, good-natured president of I. L. G. W. U., it was a good way of saying where, in his opinion, lay the responsibility for labor's split. Nobody in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

This book is a sequel to The Sword in the Stone, shows faintbrained, sweet-natured King Arthur confronted with the first problems of his position: how, with horn-rimmed Merlyn's help, to defeat rebellious kings; how to enlist Might in the cause of Right. Half-fantasy, half-burlesque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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