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Hulbert Taft, 62, educated (like Bob and Charlie) at Yale, is a kindly, tall, wizened man whose chief interests, aside from his paper, are horses and music. He uses endless columns in the Times-Star to promote better music for art-loving Cincinnati. His attitude toward employes is friendly, paternalistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Candidate's Paper | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

So revered and respected has Mohandas K. Gandhi been that he has never felt the need of a bodyguard as he travels about India. Recently however, demonstrators in a Calcutta suburb booed at the wizened little old man. One even dared to throw a shoe which barely missed the Mahatma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Shoes, Flags | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

And lastly, Vag gazed spellbound at the instruments themselves, the immediate producers of the music he heard. They were all graceful curves and deep rich colors--deep and rich as the music which poured from their willowy f holes. Vag thought of the man who had made them, Stradivarius, the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/28/1940 | See Source »

By 1918, however, industrial Germany's dependence on imported animal fodders had become all too apparent in the wizened faces of the German children. Lack of feed for German cows cut the Berlin milk supply by two-thirds, and 9,000.000 German pigs had to be slaughtered in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Wehrwirtschaft | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

De Wolf Hopper died three years ago and it was about that time that a wizened little septuagenarian from Silver Springs, Md. walked into a Washington newspaper office and presented himself as the original Casey. Dan Casey had been saying it for 50 years in his native Binghamton, N. Y...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mudville Man | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

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