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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, was speechmaking in Ohio last week, when he heard that in Washington his son and namesake, who established an alcoholic reputation upon his recent return from Panama (TIME, April 22), had driven an automobile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 1, 1929 | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Now digging in Rhodesia is Lidio Cipriani, Professor of Ethnology at the University of Florence. Important has been his discovery of flint instruments, for they tend to prove that Rhodesia was a land of the living in prehistoric as well as medieval times. Last week the Professor reported a particularly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautify It | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Masculinity characterizes the Wills game. No woman hits a ball so hard. Whenever she can she practices with a man, because "it is the best training, the men are naturally more strong, though not always so deft" Her training is strictly a personal matter. She dislikes to think of people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wimbledon | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Cousins Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, publishers of the strident Chicago Tribune, gave themselves and each other a Christmas present last week, five years in advance. In the Tribune, over both their signatures [magnified to seven-inch lengths], they published an "estimate" of what their national nickel-weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

Last month, the now-affluent Floyd Dell wrote a letter to Editor Gold in which he said: "I at first wished to have my name associated with the magazine because it represented a partly Communistic Communist and at any rate rebellious literary tendency, with which I am in sympathy. However...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Christmas Present | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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