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...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1948 | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...Scandinavia: Grenville Ross Hoiden, 34, special assistant to OPA General Manager Chester Bowles, onetime Harvard economics instructor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Bold Stroke | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Stahleymen wasted no time in getting started. On their first scoring try, they took the ball down close to the Blue goal, where their offense fizzled momentarily. But on the next attempt, the Yardlings heaved their opponents bodily over the goal on a series of blistering power plays, George Hoiden toting the oval across...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford jr., | Title: Strong Freshman Eleven Crushes Andover in Impressive 20-0 Win | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

CHANCE HAS A WHIP-Raymond Hoiden-Scribner ($2.50). In a literary scene dominated by tales of the barbarism of war and the hopelessness of peace a novel of oldfashioned, happy, romantic love stands out as conspicuously as a shy and innocent girl surrounded by disillusioned dames who have lost more than their youth. As a result Raymond Holden's Chance Has A Whip emerges as particularly refreshing, with at least one extended section that is calculated to remain long in readers' memories. The grand passion in Hendrick Fillmore's life is his love for beautiful, dark-eyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Passion | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...frequent world junkets Massachusetts' Congressman George Hoiden Tinkham flew into Moscow to check up on industrial conditions. So scraggly had grown his once long and silken beard that ignorant visitors to Russia thought him a typical Communist. His curiosity about business satisfied, Boston's champion of Red-bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1934 | 10/15/1934 | See Source »

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