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Button-holed recently in the Stork Club in new York City, Walter Winchell admitted that he had received education despite all publicity to the contrary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Walter Winchell Claims Deficiency In Education Explains Ability as Stylist | 4/11/1939 | See Source »

...three biting geese, are blazoned the words "Dr. Brinkley," and at night "Dr. Brinkley" gleams in neon lights over the splashing fountains and the swimming pool. The green lawns and blue paths are studded with statues, and over the red front door sits, as a symbol, a small ivory stork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brinkley's Trial | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...book form appeared Behind the Ballots,* Jim Farley's "personal history of a politician," fascinating reading for all who like politics. Written mostly by Mr. Far ley, the book is strong proof that Presidents, like babies, are not left by the stork but born of patient labor. Mr. Farley shows to quiet, blunt, shrewd advantage as the man who made one President and might well make another. For serial rights, The American Magazine paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Farley's Velvet | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...they had filed adoption papers for the child, she said: "We were going to make the adoption public. . . . We wanted the world to believe until that time that Beulah is ours." In Toronto Mrs. Martin Kenny, 35, mother of 16 (some stillborn), who told newshawks during Toronto's Stork Derby: "I never felt like this before. . . . I am going to nave eight-like I told you-octopuses" (she later won a $12,500 consolation prize), was arrested last month on charges of setting her house on fire four times in four months. Psychiatrists examined her, last week recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1938 | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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