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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speakers read formal papers in the mornings, in the afternoons the scientists gathered at "round tables" for informal discussion. Some of these sessions grew so heated that they finished in the hall outside the conference room. From the sidelines University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins rather tartly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

These triumphs were achieved by Richard Knight because: 1) his appearance was formidable and extraordinary; 2) in his calm Texas drawl he could be more shocking, more amusing, frequently more rude than the people he was subtly courting. He was also a clever lawyer. His business thrived. He was not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Convicted of simple assault & battery were three Warrenton, Va. aristocrats who last June oiled & feathered Washington Society Chit-Chatter Count Igor Cassini, because they did not like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

> From Astoria, L. I. : "The Trinity -God, Chotzinoff* and the NBC- we thank for making these concerts a reality." Hardly less impressive than the Maestro's fan mail is the mental shag into which he has thrown Manhattan critics. Toscaniniac Marcia Davenport: "The sun shines on - and so long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Over Vienna's jitterbugs in ¾ time ruled two men with more power than the Emperor himself. They did not make Vienna's laws, but they wrote its waltzes. These two men were Johann Strauss, father & son, subjects of a joint biography (Johann Strauss, Father and Son - Greystone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Waltz Kings | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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