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...Many a youngster has grown up in the museum, become a learned member of its science club. Recently a little girl brought in a medal and asked whether it was made of gold. A 9-year-old boy determined its specific gravity, answered that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Laboratories of Patriotism | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...youngster have toddled, off with the honors, if there are any honors, in the current cinemas at the University. Besides the Mountie thriller, "Heart of the North," in which little Janet Chapman, as a precocious frontier orphan weighing in at 72, makes a grand partner for Dick Foran, at a mere 225, there is "Listen, Darling," a Judy Garland vehicle. This latter picture features, besides Miss Garland's warbling--now geting quite torchy for the Temple-Withers-Granville circuit--a modern Dan'l Boone and his "striped beaver," more commonly known as a skunk. The beaver is much funnier than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Just go years ago, he said, an ambitious youngster fresh from Ireland named Andrew Charles opened a plain grocery store on the corner of Orchard and Delancey Streets, Manhattan. His cousin George soon joined him. In the late 505 the pair moved way uptown (22nd Street) to cater to the carriage trade. As the city grew, George urged moving again; Andrew wanted to stay near Gramercy Park. George moved, Andrew stayed. George proved the wiser, for the very year he set up on 43rd Street, Grand Central Station moved right across the street, and his store flourished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Bon Voyage | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Four years ago aging Pedagogue Hubay was delighted by the playing of a 13-year-old, mop-headed youngster fresh from the Budapest Conservatory, and decided to take him as a pupil. The youngster, a Yugoslav of Hungarian parentage, named Robert Virovai, soon had all Budapest talking. Last year, just before he died, crotchety 78-year-old Hubay, who in his time had heard his share of fiddling, shook his head feelingly and said, "Young Virovai plays so beautifully as to astonish even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Fiddler | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...pink-faced, tall youngster with a copper-colored moustache, wavy pompadour, studious spectacles and knowing eyes, Clemens got his B.A. at Madison in 1932, studied at Chicago's Art Institute, married a pretty girl and returned to Milwaukee to work on the Federal Art Project. To Manhattan, along with his paintings, he sent a written declaration of his love for the great painters, for oil painting and for the female body. More noteworthy than this credo was his challenge to the school in which Discoverer Curry was discovered eight years ago: "I am glad to see that . . . the emphasis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Young Man in Manhattan | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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