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...Fairchild thwacked the New Deal - for its conservatism. Historian Charles Austin Beard urged a democratic distribution of property. Editor of The Social Frontier and spearhead of the whole movement for a New Order through Education is George Sylvester Counts, 44, Professor of Education at Teachers College. He is a slender man of middle height with pompadoured brown hair, a deep voice, a bristly reddish mustache. Teachers Collegians flock to his classes. He is a prolific writer, can be counted on for a newsmaking speech at almost every educators' convention. He has taught Education at Yale, Harvard, University of Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frontiersman | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...opening of its orchestra season, Philadelphia had its own, its very own Leopold Stokowski. Slender and elegant as ever, he was bursting with energy. He had spent a quiet summer studying Persian music in the British Museum. But like any shrewd showman he first gave his subscribers just what they wanted: his own arrangement of Bach, a Beethoven symphony, a magnificent high-powered reading of Death and Transfiguration. Only flaw was the Prelude to Hans Pfitzner's long-winded Palestrina. But of that no one took much notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia's Scheme | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

...Magnificenze!" the slender, dark-haired Italian threw out his hands in an all-expressive gesture. It was Luigi Beccali, Olympic champion in the 1500 meters, who was speaking to an inquisitive audience of Boston newspapermen in the smoke-filled track room at Dillon Field House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Women Have Their Place in Italy, And We Put Them There,"---Beccali | 10/2/1934 | See Source »

...hurt and miserable. Alf becomes engaged to Laura, then is killed in a motorcycle accident. Loyal, devoted Ted marries Laura to give his name to Alf's unborn child. Writing his story in a manner reminiscent of Swinnerton's Nocturne, John Hampson has made much of decidedly slender material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Britannica | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Captain Molyneux, an Irishman who was thrice wounded in the War and won a British Military Cross, is a favorite of young U. S. and English girls. In his grey-walled shop, his grey-clad -vendeuses specialize in selling slender evening gowns, tweed sports and town ensembles, nearly all designed by Molyneux himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

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