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Painter Hasselbusch picked up his tiny oil (8 by 10 inches) in Paris shortly after Cartoonist Daumier died there in 1879, a blind pensioner of the Third Republic. Original Daumiers nowadays sell for five figures. Museums, if not collectors, must think twice before buying so harsh a domestic satire as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Windfall | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

She was as high as a ten-story building, her barrel 120 feet long. Her shells weighed 264 lbs. and traveled nearly one mile a second. They rose at an angle of 50°, hit the stratosphere ten miles up, traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Little Bertha | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Nowadays a man or woman who climbs into a regularly scheduled U. S. transport plane should feel in good hands. U. S. airlines closed 1939 last week with a banner year for safety. The airlines keep their fingers crossed, fearful that slips of one kind or another may still cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Upstairs | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

If the great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Since that day tennis has made out of many a young player just what Mr. Hardy howled about. Few top-notch tennis amateurs have the time or inclination to get a full-time job nowadays. While the players of the pre-Tilden era were content with a summer junket to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bums' Rush? | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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