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Bird's-eye or Flannelette diapers are considered chic this season and Papa will be glad to know they're only $1.36 and $1.59 a doz. as you'll want lots of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Advts of the Week | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

Grandpapa just sat and sat in the sunshine, or strolled down by the lake talking with Papa. Mother said that there wouldn't be any special sweet cakes or songs or funny games, as at most Birthday Parties. There wasn't even room to celebrate, here at Shorfheide, the tiny hunting lodge where they were staying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...little girls' papa, Major von Hindenburg, only son of the President, was the only male, except a trusted body servant, who was privileged to travel to Schorfheide with Der Alte Feldmarschall and there to celebrate by sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hindenburg's Whistle | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

Where then was Joffre, the jovial, the well beloved? Good "Papa" Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mighty Dead | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...critics are to be believed. They concede that his phlegmatic refusal to be defeated at the Marne (after appalling losses) saved Paris. But they blame him for the still more titanic losses suffered by the Allies in their failure to push through the great Offensive of the Somme. Placid "Papa" Joffre is even now dictating his vindication, his book-and promises to spare no critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Mighty Dead | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

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