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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week in Washington a tall thick-shouldered man of 57 with grey hair and a goatee climbed into an automobile, set off for Portland, Ore. He was tired. Though no Congressman, he had been working hard with Congress and now, upon its adjournment, he was going home. His physician had advised him to take a long summer's rest, to camp and fish in the open, to fill his lungs with fresh Pacific air. As he started on his transcontinental motor trip, he might easily have been mistaken for a successful doctor or a famed lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Methodist Methods | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

When he went to school, Manhattan's Mayor James John Walker, world-famed playboy, pulled little girls' pigtails, set tacks on teacher's chair. Last week he was 48. In front of his own City Hall, he turned in a false fire alarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: False Marm | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

...Poughkeepsie, N. Y., nine varsity crews set themselves on the broad, current-ribbed Hudson for the biggest crew pageant of the year, the Intercollegiate. Before the start it seemed as if the winner would be either California, coached by bespectacled Carroll "Ky" Ebright, stroked by huge Pete Donlan and considered this year's greatest Western crew, or unbeaten Columbia, coached by Richard Glendon Jr., captained by Horace Davenport, considered this year's greatest Eastern crew. Cornell and the Navy were considered worth watching. Few thought there was much chance of a Wisconsin victory because, on account of late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oarsmen | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Member Alfred S. Austrian, able attorney, was not-so-good golfer. He could barely "break" (score less than) 100. He offered Club Professional George A. Neill $10,000 if he could teach him to break 80. Scot Neill set to work on Member Austrian. Weeks passed. Came at last a day when the Austrian score added up to only 78, then came a 79, 77. Honest, grateful, member Austrian paid the promised $10,000. Scot Neill then asked him why he had been so anxious to break 80. The Austrian reply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bet | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Julie's story begins when she falls in love with an officer, socially her superior. After considerable blood and thunder set against the background of Napoleon's famed Russian campaign of 1812, the two do not marry. Instead the officer turns civilian, the girl remain's an army's bride; remains, says Author Gaye, "the spirit of Joan of Arc"-vivandiere. Author Gaye, like so many other young English novelists, especially female ones, has been inordinately praised by Arnold Bennett and Frank Swinnerton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bride of an Army | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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