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Sixty-seven-year-old Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish vaudeville comedian, slipped and fell in the bathroom of his Strathaven home, banged his face, bumped his thigh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Died. Sir George Louis Victor Henry Sergius Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven, 45, brother of Lord Louis Mountbatten and cousin of the late King George V of England; after long illness resulting from a fractured thigh; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1938 | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Eleanor meets Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...wrist pulse, or my thigh, instead of my head? Will I think and twist this thought and that all night? Will I never sleep? Is this the climax...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/5/1937 | See Source »

...lineup, injury jinx makes the principal problem. Of three veteran and stellar fullbacks, Coach Carr never knows for certain if any of them will be able to play until about the day of a game. Captain Dick Powell is permanently benched with a trick knee; Joe Bradley has a thigh ailment which usually allows him to play at least part of a game, recurs, and keeps him out for two or three days. Ted Robie injured his spleen in a headon tackle in the Dartmouth game and finds his return to action pretty much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

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