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...writing, that he lasted as long as he did (38 years). Pushkin was born into the old nobility, but he also had black blood: his maternal great-great-grand father was an Abyssinian ras. Pushkin's parents were social, impecunious, improvident. They paid little attention to their swart, stocky son, left him in the haphazard hands of tutors. Pushkin's real educator was his nurse Arina, who filled him full of folklore...
Named not for a coin machine but for its president, short, swart David C. Rockola, this company was incorporated in 1932 with a capital of $50,000. now has a surplus of $1,500,000, makes 200 coin-operated phonographs, 400 Skee-ball alleys a day at its West Side Chicago plant, is second only to Mills Novelty Co. in annual business. Into the development of "1937 World Series," Rockola put $250,000, paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls...
...months ago swart, dynamic, 70-year-old Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Director-General of Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., one of the world's largest producers of crude petroleum, married his third wife, Charlotte Mina Knack, a German (TIME, June...
...leader in the fight to get live musicians back into theatres and dance halls was swart, hard-fisted James C. Petrillo, president of Chicago's Federation of Musicians. Last week he launched his most daring offensive against music canners by forbidding any member of the Chicago union to make a record, beginning Feb. 1, 1937, without permission of his executive board. Many called the edict brave, more declared it impracticable. But possibly it might be the first move in a campaign of national proportions...
Specifically, the terse, determined Polish officer who has for some months past, been settling himself in a Dictator's saddle, Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz (TIME, July 27), was host in Warsaw last week to the Chief of the Rumanian General Staff, swart, secretive General Nicolas Samsonovici. While these two great military figures conferred, Polish and Rumanian diplomats finished up three weeks work, the effect of which is to revive in full force the 1921 treaty of mutual assistance between their two heavily-armed states, each larger than Italy and nearly as potent...