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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great is the jealousy, in some columnistic quarters, of the Winchell sources of information. Once, it is said, there hung a sign in the New York World office, warning all to tell Winchell nothing. But somehow, Winchell learns. Those interested to know who and his wife are expecting offspring find out in the Graphic's "Your Broadway and Mine" every Monday. When the offspring arrives, its sex is immediately disclosed. When Gossiper Winchell is flayed for a statement, he says "sorry" the next day-but only when serious consequences are threatened. Otherwise, he says nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Turn to the Mirror | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...revealed by no other sign than the number of editorials appearing on the subjects of Commencement, A Life's Work, Farrewell, Alma Mater, and other of a like nature, it is well heralded to end the school year in every college paper which tell the reader that the end is near...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cramming--A Result | 6/12/1929 | See Source »

...face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been an adventurer on the continent truly his race's for 16,000 years. How much dark embroidery he has put on his life story, it is impossible, and unimportant, to tell. It is a cracking good story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trader Dean | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...years of residence in Spokane, Wash. In Chicago he was banqueted by friends. Said he of Spokane: "It is really brilliant, like those crystal chandeliers." Said he of Springfield: "It's an old middle western town, one-third African, full of tradition and swarming with neighbors willing to tell my [new young] wife where my mother kept the mousetrap and where she hung the view of Venice." Poet Stoddard King of Spokane wrote farewell verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 10, 1929 | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...this and other evidence is a real testimony to the power of Harvard's proudest boast its indifference. Not until the duty of the hour is finished will the apostles of case and balance discard their lone for a little light entertainment. The police blotters will tell the tale of the thoroughness of their final efforts. But the world has learned what emancipation means and has come to treat Harvard in such periods with the indifference with which Harvard itself has taught...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EMANCIPATION | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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