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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mine Painter | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...former "Miss America" (1927); his second wife; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Died. Charles Rudolph Walgreen, 66, tightlipped, tight-minded founder of the U. S.'s second largest ($27,846,000) drugstore chain (508 stores in 37 States); in Chicago. In 1935, he removed his niece from the University of Chicago because he disapproved of the "Communistic theories" taught there, later gave the university $550,000 to establish the Walgreen Foundation for Study of American Institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For years Standard was controlled by Chicago's private utility bankers, H. M. Byllesby and Co. Nowadays, Byllesby plays second fiddle in Standard to Manhattan's up-&-coming, bargain-hunting Syndicateer Victor Emmanuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Baldheaded, 51-year-old Baritone Friedrich Schorr of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is a specialist in dignified Wagnerian Wotans. He almost never smiles. Last week, black-robed and bearded as Wagner's Flying Dutchman, he scowled his way through the second act, knelt with dignity upon the Metropolitan's splintery stage and prayed for his redemption. The prayer over, Baritone Schorr got up and, with a regal gesture, threw his black mantle about his shoulders. The gesture enveloped him in a cloud of dust from the Metropolitan's unswept stage. The audience guffawed. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flying Dustman | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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