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...biographer of Publisher William Randolph Hearst once asked a Hearst executive, "Who do you suppose will carry on when Hearst passes?" The tart reply: "Whoever is nearest the safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: After Hearst . . . | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...Brush and Harry A. Arthur of American International Corp.; of Bayard F. Pope and George O. Muhlfeld of Stone & Webster; of Gordon H. Balch of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. The trip was also taken by Chicago Ulen-men Marshall Field and Edward P. Currier, of Field, Glore & Co. Whoever is a Ulen director must go to Lebanon for his company's meetings for Mr. Ulen is filled with Lebanon civic-pride. In May 1929 he invited his entire office force, then working at No. 120 Broadway, Manhattan, to move in a body, and at his expense, to Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: On to Lebanon | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

Among the definitions of Art given in your issue of May 5th, Tolstoy's definition, of which Bernard Shaw wrote that: "This is the simple truth: the moment it is uttered, whoever is really conversant with art recognises in it the voice of the master," finds no place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 16, 1930 | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...Billy Arnold, motor race driver: the 500-mi. Memorial Day race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while a thief made off with his private car parked outside the track. Said Speedster Arnold: "I'd like to find whoever took it. I'd give him a title to the darn thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...blowy October day in 1858 a lanky, shambling, tangle-haired politician stood on the steps of a college building in Galesburg, Ill., and fervently shouted at a short, chesty orator, his opponent in debate: "He is blowing out the moral lights around us who contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them!" The lanky one was Abraham Lincoln, the other Stephen Arthur Douglas.("The Little Giant"). The building was Old Main of Knox College. Knoxmen may well be proud of her past. For Knox's 93 years have been as packed full of worthy happenings and worthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox-Lombard Merger | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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