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Once famed as Germany's "Iron Man" because of his Bismarckian manner at conferences, straight-necked Dr. Schacht is genial, kindly, twinkle-eyed among friends. Enemies (mostly people he has outguessed) call him a disgusting opportunist with the vanity of a Pompadour and the ambition of a Napoleon. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Schacht Back! | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

The producer, the first mate and several companions set off after Kong. They soon discover that the jungle is full of antediluvian hobgoblins. They try to cross a lake on a raft and a snake-necked brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 13, 1933 | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Maker of the muddle for clear-headed reasons was tall, scrawny-necked, gimlet-eyed Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Muddled were Philip Ernest Hill, a most successful young British financier, and Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Boots | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Short, thick-necked, addicted to pipes and vivid neckties. Major Seymour is the first dyed-in-wool operations man to pre side over American Airways. He served with the Army Air Corps overseas, re turned to become consulting engineer to the Chief of Army Air Service. Shortly after National Air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Cord at the Stick (Cont'd) | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Frank Merriwell, who, along with Dink Stever, has been for years and years the Classic Yale man of fiction, and whose adventures at Mory's in the Old Brick Row, in Professor Beer's classes and at Harvard football games, in those days played at Springfield, have been familiar to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/13/1932 | See Source »

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