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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miller. Last year it was reported that New Directions was about to publish Tropic of Cancer, by the inexhaustible

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

"Men! Are you skinny, tired, nervous, rundown? Try a bottle of sarsaparilla and watch those muscles grow." That is the sort of thing famed Hormone-Maker Russell Earl Marker of Penn State expected to see splashed all over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sarsaparilla Caution | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Sunday afternoon, at 3:45 p.m. E.S.T., Jimmy came on the air to report that the Graf Spee was weighing anchor. At 5:15, he was on again, to report that the Spee had steamed out into the Plata Estuary. Before leaving, she had transferred many of her men to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

What Jimmy Bowen watched through his glasses and told about, flash by flash, for the next 13 minutes filled everyone's front pages next day-"The ship is moving now, rolling from side to side. There goes another explosion! The after turret has gone up. . . . She is going down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

In October the fourth annual New Directions anthology came out with its usual preface by its rich (steel), shrewd 25-year-old editor, James Laughlin IV, who puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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