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...wife and their son Kilbourne. The latter, a 26-year-old graduate West Pointer on leave from the Army, spells his name Johnston. His father dropped the "t" years ago. As an investigator in NRA's legal department Son Kilbourne dashes around with his father's zip but not his thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDUSTRY: Hot Applications | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

Andre Tardieu darted zip to make a Cabinet in Paris, darted zip back to the Geneva Conference where he arrived as Premier, Foreign Minister and Chief French Delegate, darted zip back to Paris and again zip to Switzerland. No U. S. traveling salesman travels harder. Frenchmen (most of whom are only as busy as bees) call their hornet-premier "Tardieu I'Americain." Pals are Andre Tardieu and Pierre Laval. They may sooner or later cease to be pals, for French politics has a way of rupturing personal friendships.* But up to last week Senator Laval and Deputy Tardieu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hornet & Pal | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...school. Bob attended University of Virginia for a year, worked as a newsgatherer and rewrite man on the Michigan City News, New Orleans Item-Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Indianapolis News, Vincennes (Ind.) Sun, Roanoke (Va.) Times, Philadelphia Bulletin. In the Marion papers he writes under the signature of "Zip Coon" (the elder Anderson signs himself "Buck Fever of Coon Hollow"). He has had nothing published except a small pamphlet relating the astonishing adventures of a romantic steer in its effort to find congenial com pany. He refuses to dress up on week days, goes about his business clad like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Father to Son | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Zip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...Angeles, Calif., the faculty of Bancroft Junior High School outlawed, under penalty of expulsion, a popular student game called rip-the-zipper, in which any student spying a shirt, trouser or skirt fastened with a zipper would cry: "Rip the zipper!'' and zip the garment open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

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