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...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Very Interesting | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Neither passenger had lost his air-mindedness. Mr. King rode Pennsylvania Airline's blind landing plane from Washington to Pittsburgh two days later. Mr. Bane took a plane home from Newark. Nevertheless, Passenger Bane recalled his maiden flight as "a night of hell. . . . Mr. King and I ... thought as long as we were going to crack up we might as well sit down like a couple of men-and take it. ... I realized what a man feels like when he sits down in the electric chair. ... I wrote a note to my wife. I felt we were going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Flight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...mercury air pump, a stove, an ear trumpet, believer in the feasibility of airplanes, submarines, machine guns, investigator of the brain, spinal cord and ductless glands, was ahead of his time in nearly every scientific field. He believed he talked with angels and spirits, made excursions through Heaven and Hell, received a revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church. The Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For Swedenborg | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...what kind of men does he get? Experts on statistics will tell you that a certain percentage are absolutely honest and want to work hard, another per cent will steal anything they can get away with, another group are malcontents, while another section are like Rush Holt, "natural-born hell-raisers." The first thing our owner knows, there is "labor trouble" in the plant and he wonders why. His foremen don't know and his employment experts don't know. So far, the only means discovered by industry is to have one of my ilk-a Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...snowball should refuse to melt in Hell, King Carol of Rumania would be no more surprised than he was last week by the results of Rumania's elections. Any Premier, no matter how unpopular, traditionally wins the election in Rumania if he has the support of the King. One reason for this is that the police always "work for the King's candidate" (four people were killed last week) and this factor alone has been found by experience to be worth 20% of the votes. If a Premier can then poll 20% more on his own popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Nice for Nazis | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

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