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Later Corporal John was made the focus of countless lenses. "Click," went expensive focal plane press shutters. "Clickety-whurr," purred Bell and Howell cinema cameras. The noted corporal "squads righted," "squads lefted," and "righted by squads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Sep. 7, 1925 | 9/7/1925 | See Source »

...give a gold sovereign (?1) to the caddy who retrieves the ball." Off scampered the caddies. Some stopped 75 yards away, others at the 100-yard mark, a few, out of compliment to the royal golfer, went a yard or two farther. "Smack," went the Duke's club. "Click. Clack," snapped a score of cameras. "Hooray," roared the crowd. The ball cleared the caddies by yards, bounced, came to a halt 210 yards from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jun. 22, 1925 | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, smiled at Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Foreign Commissar. He then pulled his fountain pen from his pocket with a sharp, metallic click, unscrewed the top, shook it gently, scribbled something that passed for his signature. Tchitcherin countersigned. The Bolshevik Government had signed a rich manganese concession for 20 years to W. A. Harriman & Co. of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Concession | 6/22/1925 | See Source »

...seemed. To the turn, it was Jones 35, Macfarlane 39. Then the play of Thin Legs became mechanical. "Click" at the 10th, and he had a two. "Click" at the 13th, another two. "Click" at the 15th, where Jones took six, and all was as it had been in the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thin Legs | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...Click" at the 10th hole; "click" at the 13th; "click" at the 15th. (Page 28, column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Jun. 15, 1925 | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

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