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Horse Lover. So great is William Woodward's love for horses that he has oil paintings made of all his great racers, has prints made from them for Christmas presents. So horse-minded is he that when his wife, one of Baltimore's famed Cryder triplets, bore him a son...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scarlet Spots | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Carl Shannon's reporting days ended when he misquoted Jim Reed in the Kansas City Star and his city editor found out he was growing deaf. Two decades of tramping from one paper to another wound him up in the town of Harlingen, Texas, where Colonel S. P. Etheredge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Old Timers | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

> Elected as its new president plump, energetic Miss Amy Henrietta Hinrichs, a New Orleans elementary-school principal. A longtime English teacher, Miss Hinrichs shudders at misplaced punctuation marks and bad grammar. Among the first to congratulate President-elect Hinrichs were Louisiana's new Governor and Mrs. Earl Long. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teachers Meet | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Across the Channel in France two onetime French Premiers openly talked appeasement. Pierre Laval, signer of the 1935 pact with Italy and saboteur of the French eastern European alliance system, urged before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee a return to friendship with Italy, warned that a Soviet pact would be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Peace Plans | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

In 1937 and again last year Harvard wired Caniff for a picture, got it, won. By this time Yale was beginning to feel that it was being jinxed, and so last fall Yale's junior prom committee wrote to Cartoonist Caniff and demanded a picture for Eli. Caniff knocked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard and the Pirates | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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