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...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. After a quick change Mr. Kennedy zipped to the White House. It was before 10 a. m., when Franklin Roosevelt goes to the Executive Office. Bobbing in his blue uniform, 68-year-old Negro Butler Charles Green grinned a welcome, threw open both White House doors to grinning Mr. Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Smiling Sphinx | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Morning's at Seven (by Paul Osborn; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). Two seasons ago the Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...that either. It was a delusion of grandeur, he thought later, brought on by too much money and power: that and boredom, the emptiness of going through the same old triumphs. Dick Knight began to act in a way that no longer amused anybody. He threw his weight around, wrecked his friends' apartments, kicked the windows out of a taxicab, got arrested on Fifth Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson obtained five falls in winning the Varsity meet as Captain Bill Daughaday, Ted Schoenberg. Diek Thomas, Pole Himan, and Tudor Gardiner pinned their opponents. Thomas, Sophomore scissors artist, threw his opponent, Drennan, in less than a minute and a half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAPPLERS DOWN M.I.T. BY DECISIVE 33-3 SCORE | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...last 45 seconds of play, Hulse rang the bell again over the protests of the St. Nicks alternate net man Peter Grayce, who threw the puck into the stands and carried on long altercations with the officials. Grayce apparently maintained that the puck and bounced off the goal post clear...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: Hockey Sextet Downs St. Nicholas Veterans 5 to 3 In Breathtaking Opener | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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