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In Peru, where Dictator Augusto B. Leguia was last year deposed (TIME. Sept. 8) a leading Lima paper La Prensa commented last week: "General Gomez makes 'Presidents' and maintains them in office until he is bored by the joke. . . . Joking aside, the tyranny in Venezuela has such a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Gomez' Joke | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Later he met Paul Whiteman, sang with his orchestra on the Leviathan. When not singing he blew into a French horn that had no notes. He became a popular night club entertainer in Manhattan, then in London where his pudgy, unimpressive physique was an even less noticeable handicap than it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harvest Moon | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Narrator of this sad story was a doctor who ran amuck. Resident in a native village in the Dutch East Indies, he was lonely, bored till one day in walked a beautiful Englishwoman, a rich trader's wife. She was in trouble: her husband, who had been away five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sorry Doctor | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

Frank Bygott, captain two years ago of Wadham College Boat Club at Oxford, said: "I was bored . . . [then] I found that winning people to Christ is the greatest adventure in life."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Buchmanism Renewed | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

Something has happened to North Atlantic icebergs this season. Up to last week only two small "growlers" had floated into the shipping lanes. The U. S. Coast Guard was puzzled. Every spring since the Titanic collided with a berg (April 1912). Coast Guard cutters have roved the northern sea in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Icebergs | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

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