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...them, but they have their living to make. When Leader Walters takes on a marijuana-shattered former employe named Frenchy Beausea for the sake of Frenchy's metallic wife, whom he svengalizes into a smash singer, the whole band ripens for trouble. It bursts, at length, in a riverfront dive in St. Louis. At the end of it George Baker has realized his own powers and is free at last to use them: but whether he can, after years of creative suicide, the Walters hypnosis, the fertility of opposition, he is not quite sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot v. Sweet | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...twinkly of eye behind round gold-rimmed spectacles, with his round, white-fringed face, round little body, is a combination of Pickwick and Foxy Grandpa. Last week Mr. Grundy was resting in Florida, but with the full onset of spring he is expected back soon in the once-beautiful riverfront village which industrialism has made into an ugly mill town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...take a few winks of sleep, Morgantown's children rode a tug around New York Harbor, where the girls hallooed at sailors on U. S. warships, inspected the Europa, bridges, power plants, tenements, museums, topped a whole day of sightseeing with a whole night of prowling through riverfront markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Other Half | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Lateran Basilica in 1914, he returned to St. Joseph, rose quickly in the shadow of its Cathedral. Monsignor Buddy sits on the municipal Board of Health, aids in Community Chest campaigns, founded northern Missouri's first Negro Catholic church, an Information Forum for people of all creeds, a riverfront shelter and cafeteria which the Government took over in 1934 as a transient relief bureau. In the shelter, whose motto was "We never ask questions," Monsignor Buddy did such good deeds as buying haircuts and hair ribbons for little girls who thanked him because: "We wanted to look nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: San Diego's Buddy | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...drive for clothing to aid flood sufferers will be continued in the next few days. The officers of Phillips Brooks House are in charge of this clothing drive now going on in the Yard and on the riverfront...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Contributes $100 to Red Cross to Assist in Flood Relief | 3/21/1936 | See Source »

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