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...Hole, on Cape Cod, they found him. Crowds lined the shores of Cape Cod Canal the next day waiting. Tricky, and famed for his practical-jokingness, their Hero putputted seaward, rounded the cape and anchored at Provincetown, where the press picked him up once more. The Hero turned a spotlight on a rowboat full of reporters who came to inquire, picked up his anchor, and slipped away at midnight. Next day an airplane swooped over Hero's boat, the Mouette* as it putputted eastward with Hero's Wife at the wheel, Hero ducking out of sight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Put put | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Professor Fay achieved the spotlight last fall with his two volume book on the "Origins of the World War." It was written after an exhaustive study of hitherto concealed archives and documents and is the most definitive work yet published on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAY TO LECTURE HERE NEXT YEAR | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

...given their time and taken the knocks to put the winning polish on the first eleven. Where the roaring plaudits of loyal backers comes to university athletics, gratitude is not unfitting to the scrubs whose fate has been to shimmer as shadows on the dim edge of the orange spotlight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEVER SAY DIE | 4/16/1929 | See Source »

...department specialized in, and one in a very much narrower subject within the department. By adapting similar regulations, the committee in charge of Sociology and Social Ethics insure that those studying the complex mosaic of human society will not sacrifice proper balance of background to the desire for spotlight definition of isolated detail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PROPER STUDY OF MANKIND | 4/5/1929 | See Source »

...lying in a New England bed under a New England comforter, derisively grinning at an alarm clock that was trying to get him up at 7 a.m. He said that he was not going abroad, was not going to become a professional writer. For a few days the spotlight still played about the Coolidges. Their comings and goings were recorded by the press. Omni-snooping reporters went around interviewing Mrs. Coolidge while she dusted up her house. After three days, however, Mr. Coolidge was able to go out on his front porch in shirt sleeves at 7:40 a.m., pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Price | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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