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...short, while the Student Union of Harvard deserves every credit for its work in improving conditions in Cambridge, it must remember that those who sup with the devil must use a long spoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LADY OR THE TIGER | 2/18/1937 | See Source »

...Revolution came the Culbertsons lost their estate. Father Culbertson returned to the U. S. broke. Sasha began his concert tours. Between 1921 and 1926 he made over $120,000 Some of this money he sent to his brother in Paris. Ely was studying the social sciences at the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Politiques but seemed more determined to become a boulevardier and bridge shark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Brother Sasha | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...lucky for Elinor Glyn that she had found a way of making money, for her husband's involved affairs crashed six years before the War, and she had to sup port him and two daughters until his death in 1915. After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady on Tiger Skins | 1/25/1937 | See Source »

Last week Candidates Russell and Talmadge seemed to be coming down the homestretch neck & neck. Georgia's Press was almost solidly against Talmadge, chief exceptions being the Savannah morning News and evening Press, which also sup ports Landon, and the vigorous, influential Macon Telegraph, whose able Publisher William Thomas Anderson has not forgot ten that Senator Russell kept his brother out of Macon's postmastership. Fiercest Talmadge opposition was from the Atlanta Constitution, which is still coasting along on the reputation the late great Henry Grady made for it in the last century. Says Talmadge: "You know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Gene & Junior | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular. His short legs which sup ported his 205 Ib. wabbled like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baba & Behemoths | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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