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...sealed his victory with an American Round (90 arrows at distances of 60, 50, and 40 yd.) of 698. surpassing his own world's record of 673 and including 15 bull's-eyes in a row at 40 yd. Second to Champion Hoogerhyde was Andrew L. Brush, a professional of Cos Cob, Conn, who scored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bows and Arrows | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Follies (his 23rd) and sent it out to Pittsburgh last fortnight for a tryout, he knew he had no breathtakingly new ideas or humor. He knew the music was only cheerfully dependable, not intoxicating, and during the trial he bustled Composer Johnny Green ("Body & Soul") out to try and brush up the songs. But he had followed his old formula: really beautiful girls, the best tap and ballet dancing that money can buy, principals who are currently at top popularity, and the most perfect mounting, dressing, laundering, discipline. To all this he had added his priceless ingredient, that dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Good Old Follies | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

...reads the New York Times there is little if anything to choose between Patterson s Daily News and Macfadden's Evening Graphic. To him both are tabloids and thereby tarred with the same brush of blatant sexationalism. The fact is that the News has definite pretensions to being a newspaper; the Graphic none. Somewhere between the two but perceptibly nearer the News, falls the Hearst-Kobler Daily Mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Bares All | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

Matthew Chauncey Brush, head of American International Corp., resigned as chairman and a director of Barnsdall Corp, Eugene William Stetson, vice president of Guaranty Trust Co. also resigned his directorship. Robert Law, largest Barnsdall stockholder, good friend of the late Theodore Newton Barnsdall, was made chairman of the board. Mr. Law's sons are named Robert Barnsdall and Theodore Newton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Jun. 8, 1931 | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...went together, as usual under the guidance of Coach Haines and took two drills of about three miles each. Both crews rowed smoothly and at a fairly low stroke, except for a few starts. The University and Jayvee shells also got in a few fast sprints during the afternoon brush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WARM WEATHER GIVES CREWS FIRST FULL DAY | 6/3/1931 | See Source »

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