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Somber in his black coat and stovepipe hat, a tall young man slouched in the saddle one fall afternoon in 1826 while his horse ambled into the little village of Oxford, Ohio. Even as he rode he read, and his saddlebags bulged with volumes of Livy and Horace, Ovid and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbook Museum | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Comic Charlie Chester, who describes himself as a "British Milton Berle, only with a heart," is the man who was persuasive enough to sell sobersided BBC on doing the show. His only regret: that BBC is still too finicky to let him use announcers who will lose their pants during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: British Giveaway | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Baseball for Rabbis. Louis' closest friend was another young Torah student almost as sobersided as himself. Solomon Goldman descended from a line of eleven rabbis. Now head of Anshe Emet synagogue in Chicago and one of the most respected scholars in U.S. Judaism, he remembers his friend Louis as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

Many joined twins, like Chang and Eng, have lived long, full lives in their connected state, married and produced children. After leaving show business in 1840 with a nest egg of $60,000, the original Siamese pair married sisters Adelaide and Sarah Yates, adopted the name of Bunker, and settled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Son & Nephew | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

Some of his more sobersided fellow artists deplore Marcel Vertès. They sneer at his "commercialism" (he does covers for Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, along with book illustrations, perfume ads, ballet sets, china, furniture, silk print and needlepoint designs), but can't help envying his commercial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Sunny Side | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

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