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Booth tried to dropkick on the Harvard 14-yd. line early in the second quarter. A dejected little fellow, his mouth wide open, his eyes squinting, he watched his kick veer outside the east goalpost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Best cinematography?Willard Van der Veer and Joseph T. Rucker (With Byrd at the South Pole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joy v. Monopoly | 11/17/1930 | See Source »

With Byrd at the South Pole (Paramount). No matter what the scientific value of the Byrd expedition, there is no doubting the fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 30, 1930 | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...President of the A. A. O. G. A. S. is Edgar Albert Van Der Veer of Albany, N. Y. Next meeting: Niagara Falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A.A.O.G.A.S. | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

...Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield was splintered to bits, its bow bored in with leaking holes, its engine damaged. A final volley came from the rumrunner as it slipped away to hiding in the Canadian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: War on Two Fronts | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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