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Henry's real name was Henrietta (Handel thrown in for musical effect). Born into a family of amateur tooters and strummers in Melbourne, she attended the Presbyterian Ladies' College there, later studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory. Writing was a sidetrack which turned out to be her main line. She took the masculine pseudonym, she says, because she did not want allowances made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Richardson's Richard | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...horrifying feature of Dr. Broom's fossil was a set of human teeth, neatly arranged in the ape jaw. How could a creature lower in the evolutionary scale than man possess human features? asked the anthropologists. Are the human teeth in the ape's jaw an evolutionary sidetrack? Or was this now extinct ape a closer relative of man than the chimpanzee and gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old Men | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...great Wilsonian (he had cemented the relationship by marrying Daughter Eleanor Wilson in 1914), McAdoo came near the Democratic Presidential nominations in 1920 and 1924. Sidetracked by New York's Al Smith, McAdoo repaid that score and formed a second political alliance eight years later by helping to sidetrack Al Smith for Franklin Roosevelt at Chicago in 1932. At the same time he ran for the Senate with Hearst and Roosevelt backing, won his first big elective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

That was exactly what Filibusterer Connally had counted on. Three days later New York's Robert Wagner took the hint, prepared to sidetrack his Anti-Lynching Bill by bringing in the waiting conference report on his Wagner-Steagall Housing Amendment. When that is disposed of, the conference report on the Farm Bill will also be "privileged" over the Anti-Lynching Bill, keeping it off the floor until its sponsors can gracefully withdraw. Thus last week the legislation that the South, by hook, crook, or filibuster, has throttled in Congress for 35 years seemed to be throttled once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Arithmetic | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Most interested railroad in the experimental coaches is Santa Fe, which loaned ten miles of sidetrack and ,an engine for the trial runs. To show them to other U. S. roads the designers plan to install two Ford V-8 engines to enable the coaches to cruise about the country under their own power. Delighted with the steadiness of the coaches during tests at 50 m.p.h., Sponsor Hill-whose previous railroad experience consists of three weeks in the Great Northern shops at St. Paul during childhood-pronounced his cars "jounce-less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Jounceless | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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