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With no fuss or feathers, Pan American Airways sent one of its new 74-passenger Boeing Clippers across to England last week. Captained by big, blond Harold Edward Gray, carrying a crew of eleven and nine technical experts as passengers, the big 314 stopped at Horta in the Azores, then went on to Lisbon, Portugal. From there it was a straight shot across Fascist Spain to the next stop, Marseille, but Captain Gray headed north to Bordeaux, then swung across France to Marseille. Unfavorable winds, said he with a poker face, prevented the flight across Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: 314 | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Adolescents who are yanked off to symphony concerts by culture-maddened parents often conceive a permanent dislike for symphonic music. Symphony boards of directors have long wondered how to make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Symphonic Jitterbugs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...contracts with the Metropolitan. Of the six, none sported Italian names, only one had studied in Europe. The two men were big, straight fellows-baritones. The four women-sopranos-were young, slim, uncommonly pretty, utterly un-divalike. The winners: Lyric Soprano Annamary Dickey, 25, of Decatur, Ill.; and blond, moonfaced, 29-year-old Mack Harrell, from Greenville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Winners | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...dignified blond man climbed to the witness stand in the Del Rio, Tex. court house, stroked his goatee with a white, diamond-starred hand and announced:"I am the man who originated the goat gland operation." It was Dr. John Richard Brinkley, famed Kansas "rejuvenator", who for the fourth time was suing Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's publication Hygeia. Dr. Fishbein, who at the moment had his back turned on Plaintiff Brinkley, appeared unconcerned over Brinkley's demand for $250,000. Last year in Hygeia Dr. Fishbein described Brinkley as a "quack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Brinkley's Trial | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...will be Bruce Pearce, while Harlan Gustafson has the center post. Captain Pace Brickley and Gerry Seeders are the regular guards. Aside from Mischo the Red and Black present no outstanding scoring threats, and part of the Crimson defensive maneuvers will be to put Peabody and Ruml on the blond Senior's tall...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: CRIMSON CAGERS TO FACE PENNSYLVANIA | 3/8/1939 | See Source »

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