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...suggest that TIME gives to physical characteristics an emphasis entirely out of proportion to their importance. It matters not at all that Capone is sleek and fat, that Chiang is wasp-waisted and shrill-voiced, and that Hearst is big-nosed. These persons' importance is in their relationship and effect on humanity; and this relationship and effect does not arise out of physical characteristics...
...monoplane, another Lockheed, hit the coast of France only a trifle off course. They had estimated 26 hours flight to Budapest with two hours fuel to spare. But headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng, waited Premier Stephen Bethlen & Cabinet, U. S. Minister Nicholas Roosevelt and Backer Szalay who had arrived from...
...Chinese Officers' Moral Endeavor Association ("organized to build charac-ter") issued at Nanking recently Ten Commandments. Not legally binding, they are nevertheless officially sanctioned and strongly recommended to Chinese officers of all ranks by slim, shrill, wasp-waisted little President Chiang Kaishek, now busy fighting bandits (TIME, June...
...movies." To a small group of drenched spectators, "Somebody want to crank me up?" The light of photographers' flares and the stabbing finger of a revolving beacon picked out the white Lockheed at the head of the runway for a moment. Then a roar from the supercharged Wasp motor, a streak down the field, and the Winnie Mae's navigating lights were blinking a "goodbye" from the North...
...just built at Nanking a $240,000 ''Guest House" in which visiting Chinese donors and prospective donors will be sumptuously entertained. In style it is an Imperial Palace of Old China. Its spacious gardens spread over nine mow (1½ acres). Pompously the small, shrill-voiced, wasp-waisted President inaugurated this gilded trap for contributions. Then, briskly he set out on his long promised military campaign to crush bandits & rebels (TIME, June...