Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stays well inside the stern plot of Sidney Kingsley's play which is one of this year's strong contenders for the Pulitzer Prize. Dr. George Ferguson (Clark Gable) is an able young surgeon interning at St. George's Hospital. His fiancee, Laura Hudson (Myrna Loy), feels that he pays too much attention to his job, too little to her. When she snubs him for postponing an engagement, he spends a careless night with a pretty resident nurse (Elizabeth Allan). The result of this misdemeanor is the gruesome climax of Men in White...
...portrait of Albert Gallatin, famed fourth Secretary of the Treasury (1801-14) from above his desk and replaced it with a portrait of Roger B. Taney, second-rate Secretary of the Treasury for less than one year under President Jackson. Explained Mr. Morgenthau: "I wanted somebody not quite so stern...
...grind for a living again gave Bloch the feeling that he was a man without a country. The music he was writing (America, Helvetia) added little to his name. He was desperate when he relinquished valuable manuscripts for the sake of a ten-year endowment from the rich Stern heirs in California (TIME, March...
Miss Mayer is not the only famed fencer who comes from Offenbach. Like Erskrath de Bary, Hans & Julius Thomson, H. Halberstadt, Stephanie Stern and many another, she was taught by Offenbach's famed professional, Arturo Gazzerra. In 1924, at 13. she was fencing champion of Germany. In 1928 she won the individual championship at the Olympics. In 1932, Helene Mayer visited the U. S. with the German Olympic team, stayed on as an exchange student at Scripps College...
Captions explained the pictures. The man was a Pilot Erich Kocher. He flew by lung-power, utilizing the rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture...