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Born. To Jackie Coogan, 33, Hollywood's No. 1 baby bright-eyes of the '20s (now co-owner of a small movie studio), and third wife Ann McCormack Coogan, 23, ex-nightclub singer: their first child, his second, a daughter; in Glendale, Calif. Name: Joann Dolliver. Weight...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...
...20s, while Hitler drilled his bullies, Ernst Juenger greased their path to power with his doctrine of total nihilism. Rejecting both traditional Christian and humanist values, he expressed the kind of diseased fascination with violence that led Germany's rootless youth into the Führer's ranks. "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture," he wrote, "are only maintained and spread aloft by wars...
Harold ("Pie") Traynor, Pittsburgh Pirates' great third baseman and hitter of the '20s and '30s (his lifetime batting average: .320), was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y., with the late, great Yankee pitcher Herb Pennock...
...prospectus was undecided on whether to call TIME pieces "stories" or "articles." It was, however, firm on their brevity: not over 400 words. Calvin Coolidge, struck by their conciseness, called them "items" (pronounced eye-terns). When TIME'S narrative formula began to emerge in the mid-'20s, not all readers liked it. Said one: "Now I know why it's called TIME; it takes so long to get to the point...