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...only in Lieder suddenly wanted to know more about this stately youthful person who could act as well as sing. During her first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: I Am Success | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

This circular also states that these signs will occur from seven days after the first exposure to 16 days after the last exposure, and that it is possible to contract the disease more than once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES HITS FRESHMAN CLASS | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

...mail contractor should merge with another and no contract should be sublet or sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Turnback | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...long-nosed inventor named Oscar Ulysses Zerk, who once served in the Austrian army. When Alemite took over certain of Mr. Zerk's patents, it also took over Mr. Zerk. Inventor Zerk fiddled around in Stewart-Warner's laboratories for five years without much encouragement. When his contract expired in 1929, the company offered him $25,000 per year for a five-year trip around the world. Inventor Zerk did better than that. He went to work and developed new gadgets which he sold the following year for $500,000 to Stewart-Warner, together with an agreement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stewart-Warner-Alemite | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...promptly started afresh with Tom Huston System, merchandisers of "Julep Gums." Having no capital with which to start a gum factory, he arranged to have his product made under contract by Walla-Walla Chewing Gum Co. of Knoxville, Tenn. Almost before he knew what had happened Tom Huston found himself forced in under the Chewing Gum Manufacturers' Code which contains this clause: "No member of the Industry shall guarantee the sale of his product by the purchaser thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Little .Fellow's Baby | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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