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Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of Paddy | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

NOBODY STARVES-Catharine Brody- Longmans, Green ($2).* No proletarian, no Communist, nobody has yet written a first-class proletarian novel. Nearest so far is John Dos Passos' The 42nd Parallel. Nobody Starves starts out as though it might ring a new bull's-eye but it turns out to be just another ricochet. Though proletarian authors and capitalist critics would never agree on what makes a good novel, even a proletarian would want a novel to be more than a case history. Nobody Starves is a painstaking, truthful-sounding case history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Depression | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

...Manhattan Rocco Colonna, 33, unemployed musician, leaped to the tracks in the 42nd Street station of the new $191,200,000 Eighth Avenue Subway, opened two days before. Before a train appeared he was dragged up with a broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Destitution | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...designated, all books reviewed in TIME were published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($3 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME. 135 East 42nd St., New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Today's Tyrant | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

...otherwise designated, all books reviewed in TIMEwere published within the fortnight. TIME readers may obtain any book of any U. S. publisher by sending check or money-order to cover regular retail price ($5 if price is unknown, change to be remitted) to Ben Boswell of TIME, 135 East 42nd St., New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 22, 1932 | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

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