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...fair-trippers), a summer-long demonstration by Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera of how to paint a fresco (see p. 43), performances by 60 other painters, sculptors, including Dudley Carter, who hews wooden statuary with an ax; a dummy duplicate of the University of California's cyclotron, with which button-pushing fairgoers can go through the motions of smashing atoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Cut-Rate Golden Gate | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...smoke and influence. His role in the Party was to collect the funds that subsidized heelers and won elections. He persistently opposed labor legislation, old-age pensions because such laws cost businessmen money. The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill he still regards as his masterpiece. A bachelor, he wears high button shoes, smokes Havana cigars, burns Texas oil instead of Pennsylvania coal in his plants because it's cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Mr. Pew at Valley Forge | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...glass with one hand, hunts for missing toys, turns pages one at a time. At three he likes to solve ball & box puzzles, builds a ten-cube tower, turns sharp corners while running, pedals a tricycle; at four he can broad-jump, throw a ball overhand, draw a man, button his clothes; at five he skips, stands on one foot, dances to music, carries a tune, washes his face, likes to wash dishes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Baby Behavior | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...patent No. 2,187,664 was granted to John L. Rogers of Hazleton, Pa., for a mechanical rosary which counts prayers by means of a push button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Patent-of-the-Liturgical-Year | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...When Master Cooper recently switched from child parts to juveniles, he sternly put away childish things. Among them: a red-upholstered super-flivver with nine horns, seven headlights, a 22-push-button dashboard. Cinemactor Cooper now travels in a sedate maroon coupe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1940 | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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