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When he had finished, the audience cheered for two minutes. Then he handed his baton to his successor: sharp-nosed William F. Santelmann, son of the man who conducted the marines before Captain Branson got his job.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bandmasters Change | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Collegiate. At Indianapolis and Kansas City eight of the top college teams in the country fought it out in the Eastern and Western play-offs for the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship. At Indianapolis, in the final of the Eastern Division playoffs, Indiana University (runner-up to Purdue in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Long-nosed, lustrous Professor Adler wrote it in 16 days last summer, a chapter a day. (Each night he went to a movie, taking in 16 movies.) It is not a slight book (371 pages), but it is the first of Adler's writings in which he has spoken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brilliance on Darkness | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

As the first half-year drew to a close, and a solemn, long-nosed reporter for President Franklin Roosevelt went the rounds of Europe to learn if total war was truly inevitable, spokesmen for both sides restated their war aims more grimly and finally than ever. For the Allies, British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Half-Year Mark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

When the Marquis de Lafayette paid his final visit to the U. S. in 1825, the hawk-nosed old hero was persuaded to sit for a new type of life mask, the invention of a young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Candid Masks | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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