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The voters of Kentucky, of course, disdained all swill trough promises. They rose even above personalities, in which the grinning, song-singing, slaphappy, 40-year-old Governor had a distinct edge over the slow-footed, slow-witted, 60-year-old drayhorse Senator. While "Happy" Chandler sang There's a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Golden Swill | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

Pushing the accelerator down to the floor, he sped to the nearest drugstore, tried artificial respiration for ten minutes. The baby began to turn blue. The druggist shook his head. "He's dead," said he. But the agonized father would not give up hope. He dashed 14 miles to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tough Baby | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

"United We Fly." DC-4 is Donald Douglas' big baby, but three years ago it was a gleam in another man's eye. William A. Patterson, president of United Air Lines, is a small man, quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: DC-4 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Poet Eliot frequently had to sit most of the night while Artist Lewis worked feverishly on his portrait, which shows him looking dark and bitter in a grey-blue suit. When the picture was rejected he wrote to Lewis: "The portrait is one by which I am quite willing posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mortal Blow | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

MAN'S COURAGE - Joseph Vogel - Knopf ($2.50). Written with a straight left, with humor and talent also, this story of a powerful, slow-but-sure-witted jobless Pole is by the author of At Madame Bonnard's, who looks like the best bet among present proletarian novelists.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent Books: Fiction | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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