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What young (32) Carl Zeidler, son of a barber, lacked in experience he made up in personal charm. Tall, handsome, with wavy blond hair, he had attended Marquette University, where he ran the half-mile, debated, orated, sang and studied law, was voted "most likely to succeed." He made a point of joining dozens of fraternal and civic organizations, including the Y. M. C. A., where he kept in trim swimming up & down the pool. At meetings, which he diligently attended, he could always be counted upon to make a speech, or sing a song in his rich baritone. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WISCONSIN: Milwaukee's Mayor | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Payne Paintings | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...contest will go down in Eli history without a doubt as a typical example of the do-or-die Yayul spirit. It was Cobb, the short blond Eli forward, who pulled a Frank Meriwell stunt with five seconds to go, sinking the tying points with a one handed shot which traveled almost half the length of the floor...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: QUINTET OVERSOME BY BULLDOGS, 55-52 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...aint particklar whut youre age or whuther your one uv them thar big handsum broots jest so yawr a blond. All i want is a home and sum hogs ter slop and chickens ter feed. i heerd that that thar school uv larnin reely did put out som purty good gents so i'll guarantee ya Ill do all the house work like cuttin the wood, haulin the water an milkin the knows. We shore would make a good happy pare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

Twelve 1940 debutantes met at a swank Manhattan saloon. Sipping tea, they cast votes for the season's "glamor boy," chose blond, rosy-cheeked Donald Munroe (see cut), who designs debs' clothes and is not in the Social Register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 12, 1940 | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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