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...Hearst Press boomed Radical Governor Philip Fox La Follette of Wisconsin for Ambassador to Russia, if & when the U. S. S. R. is recognized. (Quietly being boomed for Assistant Secretary of the Navy was Publisher Hearst's plump son George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Appointments | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan recital superbly played. With his $60,000 Stradivarius, Yehudi goes from Manhattan to play at Smith College. He wears long pants now, made for him by the tailor to the Italian Crown Prince. But he is still carefully protected from alluring young girls. His mother and his two plump little sisters, Hepzibah and Yaltah, will go with him to Northampton. Both girls play the piano expertly but Mother Menuhin decided several years ago that one prodigy in the family was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Europe on phonograph records becomes in time a best-seller in the U. S. "Goodnight, Sweetheart," which Ray Noble wrote in London, ran such a course.* So did "Parlez-moi d'Amour," the fragile song which Lucienne Boyer introduced in Paris, and "Zwei Herzen im ¾ Takt" which plump, be-monocled Richard Tauber introduced in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tourists | 3/20/1933 | See Source »

...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Walsh | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Chairman Payson handsomely fits the role of heading an up & coming steel company. His broad thorax bent at an oar on three Yale varsity crews. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, a trustee of several hospitals. Plump Joan Whitney Payson has borne him four children, is a partner in a smart book shop. Last month she registered her colors with the American Jockey Club, thus officially taking to horse racing like all the other Whitneys. Husband Payson travels much, drives an imposing Rolls-Royce, likes to cruise north in his yacht to Portland, Me. where his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rustless Victory | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

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