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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes through Germany and the Simplon through Italy. Zog first arranged to travel by Soviet steamer from Istanbul direct to Marseille, stopping only at Peiraeus, Greece, and Alexandria, Egypt. Normal route of such a journey, however, is through the Strait of Messina, on one side of which is the toe of the Italian boot, on the other Sicily. Both are uncomfortably close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Geography Lesson | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Watching him tapdance, most people would guess he was 30. Last week Manhattan had the chance to see him on the street and dancing, simultaneously. Accompanied by a police escort, followed by a crowd, for 16 blocks down Broadway he gaily, grinningly, unweariedly clicked his heel-&-toe. It was Bojangles' way of celebrating his 61st birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Tap Day | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...pursuing his and Hollywood's newfound enthusiasm for history, bouncing little Producer Darryl Zanuck of Twentieth Century-Fox has landed on some sensitive toes: descendants of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps (whose wives and children were not accounted for in Suez), Jesse James, admirers of Alexander Graham Bell. Last month cinemaddicts who saw Producer Zanuck's Rose of Washington Square, in which Alice Faye redeems her swindler husband, Tyrone Power, by singing My Man from a Ziegfeld stage, wondered whether his foot had not slipped again (TIME, May 15). For My Man was introduced in 1920 by Ziegfeld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nicky's Nick | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...Wonson will again toe the mound for Dartmouth. Wonson was E. I. L. top pitcher in 1938, with 8 wins and 3 losses...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Cindermen Journey to New Haven Strongly Favored; Nine Seeks Indian Scalps, EIL Leaa | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

...Calgary, Alberta, the Reverend H. M. Hamnett planned to have one of his big toes cut off. Announced reason: the toe was grafted from the amputated foot of a German during the World War, since the European crisis has been "kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Joke | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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