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...those whom it does not stun or kill, disaster brings a spasm of new growth. Mrs. Kennedy is keenly conscious of this process, which gives meaning to the word immortality in a line (from her brother's epitaph) that keeps running through her mind: The reward of fortitude is immortality. Her book shows a whole nation earning that reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortitude | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...small part of Chip's success is due to Evie Robert, his second wife, a stun ning blonde, tall, blue-eyed and smart. She loves parties, horses and publicity. After their marriage in 1935 they became the glamor boy & girl of the New Deal. Chip became secretary of the Democratic National Committee, a job which pays no salary, involves no duties. But there were some people in Washington who thought that even this phantom post might be useful to Chip Robert. One day last week a fellow Georgian, Representative Carl Vinson, chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, read into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ax for Chip? | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...Borah, still weak from flu, denounced the air bill as dictated by "bluff and jitterism." His new junior colleague, pretty David Worth Clark, 36, made a maiden speech telling the U. S. to mind its own business. Minnesota's heavy Lundeen talked darkly of Presidential secrets which would "stun" and "shock" the country if revealed. California's white-crowned Hiram Johnson, North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Huffs, Bluffs & Handcuffs | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...these the biggest and most potent is the electric eel (Electrophorus electricus), a wormish monster which lives in the freshwater marshes of northern South America, grows over 8 ft. long and thick as a man's thigh, can send a shock through 28 ft. of water and stun the largest animal, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Electric Eel | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...years ago a short, swart poultryman named Paul Onorato decided to do something about a fowl-killing device which would instantly stun and immobilize the victim. He conveyed his ideas to a crack German machinist named Emile Weinaug who built an electrocution device. When it proved sound in principle they took it to the San Francisco plant of Link-Belt Co., which enthusiastically took the machine under its corporate wing, gave Weinaug a job in the tool-room. Link-Belt plans to feel out its market before jumping into quantity production, sell the first machines for $1,500, part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chicken Killer | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

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