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...Osborn of the Evening World was low man. He saw 86 plays during the past season, guessed right only four times more than he guessed wrong, expressed no opinion twelve times, scored .453. Just above him was large Percy Hammond of the Herald Tribune, purveyor of false pomp and true drollery, who scored .616. Walter Winchell, Broadway slangman and gossiper, until last week of the tabloid Graphic (see p. 18) scored .790. He was just below dignified, grammatical J. Brooks Atkinson of the Times (.798) who, in turn, ran second to the winner, baldish, bespectacled Robert Littell of the Evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Guesser | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Evolution, Present Status | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Next came an article by Paul M. Hollister, a vice president at Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. Mr. Hollister asked a hypothetical question. What, said he, would happen if publishers, who have already freed their pages from patent medicine advertising, should now refuse to accept any testimonial advertisement that was not certified as unpaid for and voluntary? Mr. Hollister predicted that such a procedure would cause anguish among many agency men charged with formulating campaign ideas, would also grieve Park Avenue females who would be deprived of "their most profitable racket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Bad Names | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

...Blasi 4D, B. N. Coolidge 3D, H. C. Chase 4D, G. F. Egan 2D, A. C. Fallon 3D, J. W. Freitas 4D, A. E. Gardner 4D, J. P. Jazowski 4D, S. S. Leather 4D, J. B. Lewis 2D, W. C. Norcross 2D, D. D. Osborn 4D, K. A. Shangraw 4D, W. A. Spinney 3D, G. E. Thompson 4D, D. A. Weisberger 3D, W. J. Wenzel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS | 2/15/1929 | See Source »

...Fact: The Romance of the Mind", Dr. Henry Osborn Taylor, Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

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