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Tickled at the mere prospect, Elmer posed last week for his portrait. From barn sides, billboards all over the U. S. his grin will hint that nobody ought to miss the new (and cheaper) wonders of the New York World's Fair. In real life the man on the poster, painted by New York Artist Howard Scott, is 50-year-old Leslie Ostrander, actor and professional model. But to everyone he will be just Elmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Elmer for a World's Fair | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Other anniversaries of the week: Chicago's WLS (16 years), producer of National Barn Dance; "Johnnie" Roventini, midget trade-mark (seven years) of Philip Morris cigarets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fibber & Co. | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Caney Junior College is a professional, not simply a vocational school. Although most of its graduates go out with teachers' certificates, its staff of 18 college-trained instructors give full premedical, -engineering and -dental courses, as well as the customary arts curriculum. The library (a converted barn) has 22,000 volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School in Caney Valley | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...with Play Actor Burgess Meredith (a radio serial alumnus) in a weekly series called Lincoln Highway. Last week's pedestrian episode along the famed 3,400-mile, coast-to-coast road was a low-budget It Happened One Night, whose boy-girl hitchhikers fall in love in a barn near Valparaiso (Ind.), instead of in a tourist cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Spring Shows | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Evind Svinhufvud, 79, Finland's President 1931-37. He arrived in Stockholm by plane, bound for Berlin, maybe Rome, and peace. An old fighter whose name means "Pig's Head," Per Svinhufvud observed: "When the road gets rough, the old cart is pulled out of the barn." He never got to Rome, and did nothing important in Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: War and Peace | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

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