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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been glued to that seat ever since I started. His eyes are riveted on the book. It is in one of those gadgets that makes it stand up and has clips to hold the pages. He's got glasses and green eye shades. Why doesn't he wear horse blinder? He takes notes at a page a minute with one hand and turns the pages with the other. But every time he turns a page it gets stuck in the clip and he has knocked the thing over three times now. He has a big green bag, a bottle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...stage a prize fight. Tom Gallery, onetime cinemactor and onetime husband of ZaSu Pitts, promoted it. Walter Winchell and Gene Fowler reported it. It was watched by Clark Gable & Carole Lombard, Tyrone Power & Sonja Henie, Robert Taylor & Barbara Stanwyck. It caused Constance Bennett to screech and Darryl Zanuck to wear his Tyrolean hat. Ringside seats at Wrigley Field cost $100.* It was enhanced by an airplane with a streamer advertising Kid Galahad (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hollywood Fight | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...were particularly eager to shake "Daddy's" hand and take tea at his trim Georgian house. By night the campus was aglow with two dozen giant silver candles, for this week James Madison Wood will celebrate his silver jubilee by graduating his 25th Stephens class, whose members will wear silver gowns and mortar boards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Spouse Trap | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...younger, career diplomat, he gave an office adjoining his own, the right to be Acting Secretary in his absence. To the older, amateur diplomat he gave an office two doors away, a closer place as his personal adviser on semilegal and political problems. In short, Sumner Welles will wear the spats, Judge Moore the carpet slippers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Double Upping | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

Medicine has controlled their every moment ever since Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe delivered them. Their birthday party this week will be a strictly hygienic affair. They will wear special party dresses with embroidery and ribbons, but their parents Oliva & Elzire Dionne, their five older brothers and sisters who are to eat most of the birthday cake, will be obliged to wear white cotton hospital gowns over their everyday clothes. If any one of them has a cold or even looks ill, he will lose his invitation to the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . And How They Grew | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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