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Suggest TIME conduct a contest to determine the smartest way it can be done. Conventional books on etiquette are of no assistance to a baby's publicity agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

...Each apron has five pockets, holds five pints. Brother Eldon Trimingham out of hours is a leading Bermuda socialite and yachtsman, was urged by Bermudians as skipper for Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. In yacht races when Brother Eldon holds the wheel, Brother Kenneth tends the sheet. Smartest town is Tucker's Town, five miles away. Here is the expensive, exclusive Mid-Ocean Club, with the best golf course in the islands. Here are the "cottages" of U. S. tycoons. Largest private house on the island is that of Manhattan's C. Ledyard Blair containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Smartest Havana hotels: the National, just completed at $6,000,000 cost; the Sevilla-Biltmore and the Presidents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Most famed bar (not smart): Sloppy Joe's. Naughtiest night club: La Verbena. Smartest shops: El Encanto and Casa Grande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Slow and Easy. . . . | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Drug addicts are the smartest inmates of Federal prisons, the Government figured last week. Public Health Service mental hygienists had studied the intelligence test ratings of the prisoners. Significant is the fact that 30 out of 100 dope fiends are above average intelligence. Of nonaddicts 18% rate above average, 17% defective. Only 10% of the addicts are defective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Smart Dope Fiends | 12/29/1930 | See Source »

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