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Except in Japan, TIME knows of no earlier use of Tycoon. But as many an oldster recalls, there appeared in 1882 an extremely popular comic opera by Willard Spenser entitled The Little Tycoon...
Winston-Salem, N. C., is a great tobacco-manufacturing community. There Dr. Wingate M. Johnson, who does not smoke, made a clinical study of smoking's physiological effects. He found: 1) Smoking apparently has no permanent effect on blood pressure. 2) There is no foundation for the popular belief that smoking decreases the weight of an individual. 3) The act of smoking, if it affects blood pressure at all, reduces it temporarily. 4) Maternal smoking does not noticeably affect the child or milk...
George White's Scandals. A decade has passed since Producer White offered the first of his popular saturnalias. Still fired with ambition, he has inserted a song (Continued...
Russians like sad stories, like the music of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. Hence in Russia, Pique-Dame is popular. Hence in Manhattan, last week, many a Russian went to the season's first performance by the Fine Arts Opera Company.* There Russian singers, singing in Russian, under the skilled baton of the Russian Jacques Samossoud found high favor. It mattered little to the Russian listeners that the opera is episodic and disjointed, lacking in theatrical unity; that Lisa's soprano (Eugenia Erminia Erganova) had a metallic edge and that Tenor Herman (Dimitri Criona) had to wheeze through a cold...
...clock in S emetic Museum 1 seems of unusual interest to the Vagabond. In connection with Anthropology 1, Professor Dozer's will take up the general subject of "Evolution", and this would seem an excellent occasion for the Vagabond to fill in the gaps which the reading of popular "outlines" has left with...