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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute weekly broadcasts of Burns & Allen, Comedian Gracie Allen gives her radio listeners many a rib-tickling account of her mythical family. Since these relatives, invented for her by the Burns & Allen gagmen, are either nitwits, convicts or a blend of the two, they are frequently identified by their places of residence-Alcatraz for father, such other Federal and State penitentiaries as San Quentin, Joliet, Sing Sing, Leavenworth for brothers, uncles, cousins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Discreet Silence | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

Donald Davidson, 45, is a Tennessean, professor of English at Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, a leading member of the Southern agrarians (Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, et al.). Like the rest of those resolute, nostalgic patriots, he believes that the thread of U. S. destiny was lost somewhere in the tangle of the Civil War. As citizens the agrarians think they can tie that thread into modern life, as poets they feel that the thread has gone for good. In Lee in the Mountains (Houghton Mifflin, $2), a book of short narrative poems, Davidson's heroes are dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine and Two | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...PURITAN IN BABYLON: THE STORY OF CALVIN COOLIDGE - William Allen White-Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...FATHERS - Allen Tate - Putnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books of the Year | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Weekly dinners are held for the Nieman fellows at which they meet leading newspaper men, faculty members, and students. Among the outstanding journalistic guests of this year are Walter Lippman, William Allen White, and Alexander Woolcott. President Conant, many professors and officers of the CRIMSON have attended these gatherings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NIEMAN AWARDS TO BE CONTINUED AGAIN NEXT YEAR | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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