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HOLLYWOOD -- Fannie Brice, Broadway's "Lady Pagliacci" who won her stage spurs singing the torchiest of all torch songs--"My Man"-- today for the third time in her life lost her man in a divorce court when she was granted a divorce from Billy Rose, pint-sized shown and impresario. The charge was desertion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 10/28/1938 | See Source »

...have it because of a deal Pittock had made with rich U. S. Senator Henry Winslow Corbett. One story goes that Editor Scott was in the East when he first learned of the "betrayal," dashed across the continent, and wiped up the office floor with his partner's pint-sized frame. Present day Scotts and Pittocks are noticeably cool toward each other. Most embittered has been big, bald, son Leslie M. Scott, President of Portland's chamber of commerce who took part in conferences leading up to last week's changes as representative of the 230 Oregonian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Portland Saga | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 1, 1938 | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...reasons why Donald Douglas has expanded in 18 years from that pint-sized barber shop to a plant covering 1,315,974 square feet are two: He believes that it takes dreamers and technicians, not businessmen, to make airplanes; he has the uncanny ability of finding the right experts from among his old cronies. Donald Douglas has surrounded himself with a group of congenial, practical-minded Jules Vernes. Perhaps the most important of these is Arthur E. Raymond. Son of the late Walter Raymond of Raymond-Whitcomb, he looks more like a professor than a boss. His first job with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...side made things pretty nice. "Food! Good Lord what meals: fresh vegetables, plenty of meat, mmmmm!" and he continued to tell of feasts that would cause even the palate of a Lucius Beebe to water. There was one trouble, however, and that they only got little more than a pint of milk a day, but Bangs seemed to feel that the wines, especially the new spring wine from the Barcelona region, more than made up for this lack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Man Sets Up Bureau to Get 100 Fighters for Franco's Battalions | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

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