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The "Giant of the West" seemed to agree that he was indeed feeling better last week. He continued to frolic with increasing enthusiasm on his New York Stock Exchange (TIME, Aug. 8). After taking a one-day breathing spell, the market boiled for the rest of the week, stocks & bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rally (Cont'd) | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Familiar to passengers who fly in multi-motored planes is the sound of throbbing overtones above the drone of the engines. "Waah-waah-waah" the engines sing. Nervous passengers imagine something is wrong. Seasoned travelers are made drowsy, are often annoyed by the monotonous chant, as by the clickety-clack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Racing Gasbags | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

There is at Harvard one of the greatest of living philosophers, Professor Whitehead. It is with infinite regret that one is obliged to utter a word in criticism of him; but in what, I suspect, was an amiable moment, Professor Whiteland made an address which has been incorporated in a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flexner Asserts Harvard Business School Fails To Give Men Correct Comprehension of Work | 3/22/1932 | See Source »

Six years ago Dr. Kane ruptured himself riding horseback. He was nearing 65 and repairing the abdominal tear seemed scarcely worth while. But last week the old surgeon decided that he might just as well mend his rupture. To assist him he called Dr. Howard Martin Cleveland, whose birth? was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Surgeon | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

Thomas Alva Edison approached Death's door last week at Llewellyn Park, West Orange, N. J. as another great citizen of that State, Dwight Whitney Morrow, passed suddenly through. All summer he had been failing. At 84 he suffered from diabetes, Bright's disease, uremic poisoning and stomach ulcers. As...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World Citizen | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

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