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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photographer Harold Field Smith was back in Seattle last week after chasing two bloodhounds through the Cascades for his paper, the Times. Famed throughout the Northwest are Smitty's high, fiendish laughter, his admiration for pregnant women ("I love 'em! God, I love 'em"), the hissing gibberish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Photographer Smith will not admit he is getting old. His hair is greying, but he still walks briskly, makes the most of his five feet five. (His small head, thick neck and beakish nose make him look something like an upright turtle.) But even when he is through with newspapering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Straussiana | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Irony of the Secretary's trouble is that most of it comes of his having struggled so long with the farm problem. Former farm editor, mathematician, agriobiologist, he spent 15 years before becoming Secretary of Agriculture in developing hybrid seed corn (through Pioneer Hi-Bred Seed Co., originally the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CROPS: Irony | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

In high holiday humor, this bright, fast, pert reporting rollicks along almost as if there were no war in China. Messrs. Auden & Isherwood are right in their element describing such Alice in Wonderland scenes from topsy-turvy Chinese life as two old men gravely trying to put a rat in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bad Earth | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

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