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...enemies these women must fight are the painfully crowded transportation system, soaring prices and low military pay, appalling housing shortages and bru tal rent gouges, plus the thousand and one exasperating accidents of fortune-the missed connections, wrong addresses, misunderstanding of directions or appointments, the unpredictable changes in military orders which can cancel out months of planning and thousands of miles of travel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Whither Thou Goest . . . | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Better Natured | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...artistic spotlight which remains jumpily fixed on Picasso's generation a few younger Frenchmen have lately popped. Last week one of these was introduced to the U. S. by Manhattan Dealer Julien Levy, whose eye is on Paris like a hawk's. The debutant was Rene Pierre Tal-Coät, a shy, husky, onetime Breton sailor, now 32, who has lived for ten years in one sixth-floor room at 5 Rue 'de Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: French Natural | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

Asked what feminine screen star she admired most, she replied without hesitation that it was Garbo. "Garbo has everything, beauty, personality, and tal-talent," she exclaimed. Of male celebrities she termed Paul Muni "the most brilliant actor in Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Katharine Hepburn Claims College Dramatics Have Moulded Many Future Celebrities of Broadway Stage and Movieland | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

...Naini Tal, India, Sir Gulab Singh Bahadur, 33-year-old Bandhvesh Maharaja of Rewa, shot his 501st tiger, claimed a world record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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