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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a new-style, squshier, stickier, whipped-cream pie, summoned oldtime Pie-slinger Buster Keaton to hurl 56 of them; called in Mack Sennett, Chester Conklin, Jed Prouty, many another old-timer to impersonate themselves, resurrected Keystone Cops* and Bathing Beauties, the bewitchingly crossed eyes of Bartender Ben Turpin. Many a fan sat twice through the heartthrob antics of 1939 to see the side-splitting antics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops the column, Old Tack, 53, fresh from a visit to Washington, made an announcement which might lead him once again to the nation's front pages. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Panhandle's Friend | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Both Negro Author Turpin and Negro Author Hurston paint their racial pictures, with little shading, in glistening blacks and lurid tans. But to white readers who object to their violent brushwork they might truthfully reply: Negro life is violent. Author Turpin's story traces the fortunes of a Negro family from its uprooting in the Civil War to its rootless present. Martha, daughter of a plantation slave, died too soon to prevent her daughter from growing up in a bawdy house. Her granddaughter, starting off as a respectable farmer's wife, ended up on the Harlem stage, mothered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Negropings | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

THESE LOW GROUNDS-Waters Edward Turpin-Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Negropings | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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