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...Gossipy Sex. A Stamford (Conn.) audience advised Producer John Golden to take this play to Manhattan. It concerns a lisping tattletale in trousers, who so irks a houseful of guests that the Chief of Police himself yields to an itch to plug the stream of slander with a bullet. Unfortunately the shot misses. Actor Lynne Overman burlesqued his role of wag-tongue -which is about all that could be done with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

...became captain of the Harvard football eleven which lost to Yale 8-0. But it took this Fish only three years to graduate cum laude. He has been in Congress for three terms and is not yet 40, His family is like a switchboard through which his mind can plug in quickly to any period in U. S. history. His family has dealt with Latin-American countries before. His grandfather once brought peace to four of them. If Hamilton Fish Jr. predicts conquest of Mexico, it is not the boasting of an upstart though it may be the patriotic arrogance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Fish's People | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

Hat?White plug (cartoonists' delight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Pangs of Gianthood | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...excellent position to bear out that saying. Its own stability was implied by its possession of a car for every pocketbook-Cadillac, Buick, Oakland, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Chevrolet; of specialties and accessories- Yellow Cab and Coach, G. M. C. Truck, Delco Light, Fisher Body, Jackson Wheel, A. C. Spark Plug, Harrison Radiator; and of the huge sideline, Frigidaire, which ranked only after Buick and Chevrolet as an earner this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Biggest Industry | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

Meanwhile Sir Alan Cobham had been forced by a faulty spark plug to volplane to earth near Nuneaton. Deftly he skimmed beneath a high tension line carrying 6,000 volts. Then he discovered that he had no wrench with which to repair his motor. Vexed, he walked three miles until he found an autoist who loaned him a suitable wrench. His plane repaired, he sped to Manchester and civic glory. Meanwhile a Manchester crowd, informed by telephone of the contretemps, burst into incredulous laughter, refused for some minutes to believe that the great hero-airman of Britain could have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grief | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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