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...week. Thus have run countless similar items in every U. S. newspaper. To clear up the doubt which arises every time a person falls-or-jumps unobserved out of a building, two days later the Times made a suggestion on its editorial page. Taking the case of hypothetical Richard Roe, the Times said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: City Editor | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Woolsey of Manhattan decided last month. Thereupon Putnam's rushed the printing and, last week, published Marie Carmichael Stopes's Married Love- the first of her eight monographs on sex activity. Professionally she is a palaeobotanist and an authority on coal. In 1918 she married Humphrey Verdon Roe, who with his brother Sir Alliott Verdon Roe developed the Avro biplane. They live in Surrey with their two sons and cooperate on birth control campaigns. She first published Married Love in 1918. Since then she has sold 700,000 copies in England alone. Copies heretofore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Connubial Hygiene | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Almost every college has its campus character?a decrepit newsboy, perhaps, or a blowzy charlady, an eccentric professor. Cornell University's character is Romeyn (pronounced Roe-mine) Berry, graduate manager of athletics. Usually taken for granted, he made news at Ithaca last week by losing his most famed possession, a brown tweed hat with a grouse feather in the band. He put a notice in the Cornell Daily Sun: "I value the hat highly and will pay for its return a reward of $10?just twice the cost of the thing. ... No questions asked. ... If the finder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Character | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

Last week on narrow Lake Windermere, England, he took out his new boat Miss England II, an improvement on Miss England in which he beat Garfield A. Wood in Miami last year. Miss England II was de-signed by F. Cooper and built by Saunders Roe, Ltd., of Cowes. She had two Rolls-Royce engines of 2,000 h. p. each, made of a new aluminum alloy called hiduminium. "Well, now for it," said Segrave. "She's chewed up three propellers. I'm trying a bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Death of Segrave | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Doubles-Hill and Daggett defeated Jones and Stone (C), 6-4, 6-4; Breese and Frame defeated Roe and Tachorn (C), 6-2, 6-2; Mount and Scheshunoff (C) won from Tower and Patterson by default...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD TENNIS TEAM DEFEATS LIONS, 6 TO 3 | 4/26/1930 | See Source »

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