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...Higgins Moses or Col. Hanford MacNider? Publisher McCormick of the Tribune? William Wrigley, Jr.? Adman Albert Davis Lasker? Or even "W. R." (Hearst) himself? The Colonel grubbed eagerly through the bouquet for a card, found none. Then he became aware of a sly smile on the face of a rotund, grey-haired man standing near. Boomed the Colonel: "You old sonofagun! I knew it was you!" and the other man waddled off contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New .Face For Chicago | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Burton Thorn Simpson, 58, the rotund, chubby director of the New York State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease at Buffalo, spoke for himself and for Dr. Thomas Parran, State Commissioner of health. Dr. Simpson agreed with the other Easterners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: California v. New York | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Thanks to the Press, a rotund little quizzical-faced German-Jewish mathematician is known as the greatest man in the world today. Everything he says and does is News. If you are a careful newspaper reader you will find nothing new in this little collection of speeches and scraps of interviews, but you will rediscover many a bookworthy phrase, sentence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Einstein Obiter Dicta | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

...bald, white-mustached and be- spectacled man, whose red lips and rotund girth belied his 74 years, bent feverishly over a manuscript in Harvard's Widener Library one day last week, writing for all he was worth. Reluctantly he went home that evening, planning what he would do on the morrow. That night he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Next afternoon he was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Death v. Historian | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

...become an opera star will ever be realized unless the cinema itself evolves its own form of grand opera. His voice, for all its beauty, is small-not an opera voice. Yet such a singer as Novarro would be far less absurd on a grand opera stage than the rotund divas and stout heroes of grand opera would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 29, 1930 | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

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