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Ralph misstepped first: he moved directly from Columbia Law School to the stage. Frank, then a boy soprano at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas Church, later had one year of business administration at Cornell, a spell working for his father. He tried cowpunching in New Mexico, stoking coal on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Wuppermann Boy | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Tough Job. As Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Churchill must fight two wars: 1) the far-flung military and naval campaigns of World War II; 2) the vital economic battle at home to support 46,000,000 people while stoking the insatiable maw of Britain's military machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Churchill's Other War | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Of course, with Ethel Waters in there to roll the orbs, flash ivory and vibrate the larnyx, it is hard to see how any production could fail to ring the chimes. When she, as the religious and patient Petunia, sings Vernon Duke's "Taking a Chance On Love" and "Cabin...

Author: By R. C. H., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

To the American Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting in Milwaukee last week, Dr. Victor George Heiser (An American Doctor's Odyssey) made a powerful plea for proper stoking of the human machine. Science has proved, said he, that the greatest factor in longevity is correct eating.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

In Winthrop Common Room last night a typical Harvard show was presented. It was written by undergraduates, and it was acted by undergraduate hams. It contained a dull first act, an hilarious second act, and a riotous third act, took a lot of stoking to get up steam, but the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/21/1939 | See Source »

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