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...with François' mother. "It is absurd," he says We must find means of putting everything right . . . François must take part in our opening scene [at a masque they have planned]. You must choose his costume " As Mahaut looks at her husband, she sees nim at last for what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A French Cameo | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...already made himself a local god with fast horses, fast automobiles, speed boats, when in 1926 Barnstormer Jimmy Wedell dropped down into Patterson to look around. Among the gawpers who flocked about Wedell's rickety crate was ''Speed Kid" Williams, then 40. Results: Wedell taught nim to fly, sold him a plane, became his good friend, confided his own ambitions. Wedell could not read a blue print (he cannot do it yet) but he knew what kind of plane he wanted. Speed Kid Williams built a hangar on an old sugar canefield on his estate and Jimmy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: The Races | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...there are many alternatives presented, as: "This is the story of the late holiday price-cutting war of the New England rum fleet" or: "Ho Nim and Fong Tang had just finished their supper in the tiny kitchen behind the laundry of Jim Fong, 2006 Chester Ave., Wednesday night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spreading | 6/2/1924 | See Source »

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