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...1920s and 1930s, TlMEstyle was a clever, sometimes irreverent blend of double-barreled adjectives (bald-domed, haystack-haired), word combinations (Nobelman, cinemaddict), neologisms (tycoon, socialite) and inverted sentences. Although that approach changed long ago, style, in a different sense of the word, remains vital to the magazine. Maintaining TIME's linguistic standards and revising them when necessary are the responsibility of the Copy Desk. Says Copy Chief Susan Blair: "Our main concern is to make the magazine as easy as possible to read. We don't want to throw the reader any curves...
DIED. Morton Downey, 83, singer known as the "Irish thrush" (though he was U.S.-born) for his high, silvery tenor, who was one of radio's most popular and best-paid stars in the 1930s and '40s on The Camel Quarter Hour and The Coke Club, and later became a wealthy businessman who hobnobbed with socialites and top Democrats, notably the Kennedys; in Palm Beach...
...truth is that Natty Gann is a very good movie by anyone's standards. Set in the 1930s, the film has an unhurried pace, and the amplitude with which it envisions the land, its alternation of the idyllic and the menacing, evokes one of that era's classic forms, the road movie. And then, in effect, reimagines it. Here the road movie's traditional protagonist, the wayfarer whose only resources are wit and courage, is transformed into a young girl. Enchantingly played by Meredith Salenger, 14, Natty is obviously more imperiled by the hobo life than a man would...
...headlines on its own. Last week the communications giant closed its toy, computer software and theatrical-film businesses, announced the early retirement of the No. 2 executive in its broadcast group and reported its first quarterly loss ($114.1 million) since the early days of the company in the 1930s...
...with their names and birth dates. Check high school records and Zina's death certificate or obituary. Thus armed, you can explore websites like ancestry.com classmates.com and rootsweb.com At the library, look up the Millers' old addresses in the R.L. Polk directories, which provide census information back to the 1930s, and check the New York Times indexes (available online for a fee) for obituaries and marriage notices. Another possibility is Social Security's letter-forwarding service...