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A familiar Tibetan figure is the sinister Tzuren or poison-doctor, who practices his art to keep the ins in and the outs out. In modern times, only Dalai Lama who did not die mysteriously before reaching his majority has been Ngawang Lopsang Toupden Gyatso. In 1893, shortly before he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 14th Reincarnation | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

In the department store basement of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., Powel Crosley Jr. this week put his new midget automobiles on sale. First purchaser: Mrs. W. Averell Harriman. Box score for first day's sales: four coupes ($365), twelve sedans ($389), no trade-ins.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Dry Goods | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

But a phonograph recording executive named Ted Collins, believing she had better assets than her figure, put her in radio. Simplicity, Collins decided, would put her over. So her introduction became simply: "Hello everybody, this is Kate Smith"; her farewell: "Thanks for Listenin'." Soon Kate was giving a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kate the Great | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

Lightning. More specific reason for the manning of naval anti-aircraft came in another official leak. INS Correspondent H. R. Knickerbocker reported that the British Admiralty apparently had learned of Nazi plans for a "demonstration" bombing flight of 500 German planes just to give Britons some idea of what might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TROUBLE IS BREWING | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

American Weekly, sold to non-Hearst papers for the first time last year, has a circulation of 6.700.000, makes more money for Hearst than anything else Hearst owns. Not only do the Hearstpapers guarantee 5.000.000 of its circulation, but it has held Hearst's Sunday circulation steady while daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dusk at Santa Monica | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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