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This week, ex-Friend Pegler's book, The Dissenting Opinions of Mister Westbrook Pegler, was published.* Of its 85 reprints of his daily diatribes, only two were written without his scalpel. One is an ecstatic appreciation of Walt Disney. The other, a testimonial to telegraph operators, amazed even its author. "I am not very good at singing praises," he concludes, "having very little practice, and I hardly know what has prompted me to this extraordinary outburst of sweetness toward my fellow man. Just call it a change of pace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mister Pegler | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

Lane-Wells Co., 208,006 shares of common stock at $15.25 a share. Back in Depression I, two middle-aged engineers named Bill Lane and Walt Wells, down to their last $500, perfected a gun with which they could shoot through the steel-&-cement well-casing of dry or abandoned oil wells at levels thought to be oil-bearing. Since then they have turned a pretty penny ($590,814 net in 1937, $310,458 to June 1938). Of last week's issue, floated to pay off loans and finance expansion, 58,006 shares were new securities, 150,000 were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: New Issues | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...most ingenious and costliest ($27,000) of them all. Lit by 4,000 feet of neon tubing and 4,104 electric bulbs that flash off & on under photo-electric impulses, the advertisement, designed by Cartoonist Otto Soglow, runs steadily for five minutes, automatically repeats itself, resembles a Walt Disney cinema short. The cartoon shows two elflike characters making love, smoking cigarets, blowing smoke rings ; it will have a different theme every two months. Located at 43rd Street and Broadway, it is a half-block long, two-and-a-half stories high, uses electricity sufficient to illuminate a city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Spectacular | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Among her U. S. admirers, the most ardent was a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy named Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Mixture | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Rowing at number five oar in John Gardiner who has held down this position on the Varsity for two years. A perfect stylist, Gardiner rates with the captain as one of the country's best oarsmen. Walt Kernan, a burly Sophomore, at the number four side, succeeds his brother Reg at the job and what he lacks in form he makes up in power. Although experienced at number six on his Freshman crew, he has a tendency to lean out to port...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW | 6/15/1938 | See Source »

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