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Near Huntingdon. Clyde Davis, 35, fell out of an ambulance and drowned in the Obion River while taking his father to a hospital. Earl Kilgore. 35, was drowned when his car unset in a swollen creek. A drowned Negro was found in a Clarksville ditch. From Arkansas South-The Ohio basin's flood waters would not take full effect until this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Hell & High Water | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

...many years at his country home at Lake Hopatcong, N. J. Funnyman Joe Cook has been assembling at great expense safety pins, collar buttons, unset stones, Japanese netsukes, miniature bibles, bathtub faucets, tin soldiers, perfume bottles, ball bearings, for his celebrated collection of objects ''no larger than a man's hand." An object which qualified for the Cook collection appeared in New York's art mart last week, a 16th Century portrait four and one-half inches in diameter. Comedian Cook is an unlikely purchaser, however, for the picture is the only authenticated self-portrait...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Handy Holbein | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...Rome, Italy. After 70 he worked out a new piano technique (straight arm from elbow to knuckle). Amazement at his own mastery marred his concerts ("Bravo! Bravo!" "You never heard anything like this." "Terrible! I will do better tomorrow."), drew crowds. Declaiming, gibbering, playing to a pile of unset jewels on the piano end, once to a pair of socks, bouncing on the piano stool, his shows were fine pianizing or fine Pachmannizing. Specialty: Chopin. A nickname (by the late James Gibbons Huneker) : "The Chopinzee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Diamonds, unset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Passed At Last | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Through a proper understanding and interpretation of history at a time when his ideas are still unset a man can learn to appreciate the point of view of the other fellow and get a better perspective on life. Such a perspective is fundamental to the liberty and freedom for which America has always stood. Tolerance and a breadth of view are the chief values to be gained from a college education, and nowhere as in our universities is it possible so easily to learn these values. If Columbia is really able to inculcate in here students a clearer perspective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLENDING "RED" AND "WHITE." | 2/2/1920 | See Source »

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