Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Having learned three weeks ago that Samuel Emory Thomason's Chicago Journal had been purchased by Walter Ansel Strong's Daily News, news-prophets set about to predict that the Journal would be turned into a tabloid (TIME, Aug. 12). Paying little attention to Strong denials, persistent Hearst...
THE MODERN FAMILY-Ruth Reed- Knopf ($3). In academic circles ideas need not be new to be exciting. Despite some circumlocation, Author Reed, not original, has enough feminist and liberal passion to excite one way or another those who care about The Family. For instance, in a Southern university not...
To the casual observer a dance hall is an upstairs place in a side street where the patrons stroll aimlessly about a railed-in hardwood floor, waiting for unknown partners to appear. For 10? they may pass the rail and dance for five minutes under red-lidded lights. A strong...
So that parents, moralists, sociologists and legislators might know more about dance halls, the U. S. Children's Bureau* commissioned Ella Gardner, specialist, to compile a survey which was published last week. Facts now known about U. S. dance halls (gathered from 416 cities) include the following:
The Los Angeles, oldest of dirigibles (five years), made repeatedly successful tests over New Jersey and New York carrying a plane slung from a trapeze under the hull. The plane would detach itself, fly about, return to the trapeze. The dirigibles which Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is preparing to build for...