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...Anne was never far from his side or from a camera. Even an illiterate could have learned, by following last week's news pictures (see cuts), that Peggy Anne Landon: 1) sat by a campfire with her father; 2) posed on a porch rail with her father; 3) ate a picnic supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with her father. With quiet, handsome Mrs. Theo Cobb Landon fully occupied by her bouncing babies, Nancy Jo and Jack, it was plain that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Nominee's Daughter | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Sure, but what do you want them for?" I countered. "I want to feed them to my hogs," quoth Fred. "Go way back and sit down," I remarked testily. "Come and see," said Fred. He took a basketful of ashes and cinders and gave them to the porkers who ate them ravenously. That galoot Fred had been wintering his hogs with my ashes, and they appeared to thrive on them. WILLIAM E. JOHNSON McDonough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...that she was extremely stingy, never took so much as a beer unless someone else paid for it; that the bullets she used in her act were explosive, scattered the shot so that misses were rare. Death Valley Scotty, broncobuster, was such a glutton for chocolate creams that he ate them while his mount was cutting capers. Buffalo Bill stuck religiously to his temperance pledge except in his native State of Nebraska: there all bets were off, and the show, taking its cue from him, went really wild. Cody and his equally temperamental manager, "Arizona John" Burke, sometimes had differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sesquipedalian | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...them had gonorrhea. There was no full-time doctor in attendance. The girls lived in locked cells on unlighted brick corridors, with only one toilet and one bathtub (with no hot water) for every 16 girls. One delinquent had her illegitimate baby in her cell. All of them ate in the kitchen where the laundry was hung to dry. The only training was doing the School's chores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Delinquents | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

Juanita loves good food, refers constantly to her fare: "No body can cook cabbage to beat the Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gelouries! | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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