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The Vagabond is uneasy. He would like to throw back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1938 | See Source »

Newton's greatest gifts were in mathematics and physics, but he was frequently bored with or indifferent to these branches of learning, and spent most of his time on alchemy, history, theology and mysticism. He edited geographical works, made telescopes and ear trumpets, dissected animal organs and studied cider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sullivan's Newton | 5/30/1938 | See Source »

But the underworld enjoins perseverance on its adherents, and Ziegier was again awakened at 3.30 o'clock yesterday morning by the same determined thief, busily engaged in rifling the bureau drawers. Ziegier, a traffic bored with this repetition, muttered, "So it's you again."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burglar Discovered in Wigglesworth Room by Inhospitable Freshman | 5/17/1938 | See Source »

In Washington Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt told her press conference, apropos of the LIFE pictures: "I never think honest things are bad. I think that suggestive things which do not deal honestly with a subject are much more harmful." She told how a small boy she knew had been merely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of LIFE (Cont'd) | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

In Merion, Pa. last week, baldish, 62-year-old Josef Hofmann, famed concert pianist, father of a 17-month-old son, grinned when a reporter asked his opinion of 55-year-old Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Greta Garbo. Said Pianist Hofmann: "I think they make a good couple. . . . Certainly there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

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