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...people. Shutting the eyes also helps, since the sympathetic nervous system is also affected by optical unsteadiness. Drinking champagne is another remedy. But the best thing of all, for seasick prince, pauper or potentate, is to surrender completely and lie down. . . . Returning to Key West from Havana on the swift cruiser Memphis, President Coolidge lay down.* Secretary Wilbur filled an engagement the President had made to address the ship's officers and crew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 30, 1928 | 1/30/1928 | See Source »

PORGY?A Negro troupe giving the turbulent details of love, terror, and swift laughter of native life along the Charleston docks. (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 23, 1928 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story; fine, truthful, engrossing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONFLICT. By Olive Higgins Prouty. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, 1927. $2.50 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

Soon the Lloyd George family were welcomed as official and honored guests of the Estados Unidos do Brazil by President Dr. Washington Luis Pereira de Souza. Three days in Rio and two more of inland excursioning, to be followed by a swift return to England, was the vacation program of the onetime British Prime Minister. Ever to the fore, he made the now smart British holiday trip to Brazil in the wake of famed Poet-Jungle-Chronicler Rudyard Kipling who recently "rolled down to Rio" and stayed to praise a land almost as rich and wondrous as "Kipling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Down to Rio | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

Newspapers depend on the telephone perhaps more than any industry for the swift transmission of their business. Newspapermen, often harried frantic in attempts to get the office or the information centre of a story close to edition time, were quick to pick up last week a brief story about Harry Kaufman, leading Elk. Mr. Kaufman, lacking a nickel, became infuriated because he could not attract central's attention from a Manhattan pay station booth. He wrenched off the mouthpiece; twisted the receiver hook; all but tore the box from the wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Rags to Riches | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

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