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...telephone calls, lives in a small house with Lisbeth, uses no makeup, dresses in moccasins, old sweater & trousers. She swims 30 times up & down her pool every morning, 30 more times every evening, attends no Hollywood parties even when they are given by Universal's Carl Laemmle Jr. Stubborn about her own affairs, she replies to studio requests to have a crooked tooth in the left side of her mouth straightened by saying she prefers it crooked. Studio officials last autumn persuaded her to have a mole on the left side of her face removed. She disappeared for four...
...industrial suburb of St. Paul. He soon became the youngest synod moderator ever elected in Minnesota. Today Dr. Covert is called a "pastor to pastors" because he has sympathetically heard the woes of thousands of his fellows. Tall and stocky, he dresses well, has twinkling eyes and a stubborn shock of white hair, has spoken before 297 local presbyteries. The Philadelphia fundamentalists who founded the ''rebel'' missions board (TIME, April 23), complained loudly before the Cleveland assembly because the General Council of the Church had issued a pamphlet detailing how illegal the board is. Last week...
When the Senate refused to confirm Calvin Coolidge's appointees, that President could generally be counted upon to put up a stubborn fight for his men or else sulkily decline to name any others to office. Franklin D. Roosevelt is a President of a different stamp. Last week the Senate Commerce Committee voted (11- to-5) against his appointment of Dr. Willard Long Thorp as Director of the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. President Roosevelt sidestepped a tussle with the Senate by promptly withdrawing the nomination of Dr. Thorp who thereupon offered his resignation from the post...
...Storm Jameson's autobiography (No Time Like the Present; TIME, June 26) may note similarities between herself and her heroine, Hervey, may recognize other real people from Author Jameson's past. But Company Parade is no autobiographical novel, in the confession sense. Central figure is Hervey Russell, stubborn Yorkshire girl come to London after the War to seek her fortune, at the price of leaving her adored infant son at home, her weak husband to his own devices. Painfully she holds down a job in an advertising agency, lives scrimpingly in lodgings where her only friend...
...cliches amused him: "cleansing" and "liquidating". The central committees are periodically "cleansed" of inactive members. If you don't make converts, out you go. The word "liquidate" he heard fifty times a day. All the stubborn problems of life and the world--bad roads, antiquated farming, stealing--were in process of being "liquidated." Mr. Mecklenburg approved of this category...