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Dates: during 1930-1939
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We Are Not Alone (Warner Bros.) is a somewhat overlengthy, overwordy picturizing of James Hilton's cheery little novel of that name in which the only two pleasant characters get hanged. As an absent-minded young doctor in a small English village, Paul Muni (with a phony English accent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

The Flying Deuces (RKO). Laurel & Hardy in a not very funny remake of Laurel & Hardy. But the last laugh is a horselaugh: Hardy, reincarnated after an airplane crash in the form of a moustached horse that looks like him, being wept over by lonely Stan Laurel.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Sandburg bought this place eleven years ago, about the time he started work on The War Years, the second part of his biography of Abraham Lincoln. In the attic he put a stove, a cot, a few chairs and a lot of book shelves. Near a corner window he put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

From April to October each year Sandburg made no engagements; he sat at his cracker box and wrestled with a bigger job than any army commander ever faced. Fifty years old when he started it, he could summon to his aid a lifetime of singularly useful experience: as a shock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

In the Senate of the United States Senator Louis Wigfall of Texas, an elegant credited with winging his man in eight duels, could face the Northern Senators to say, delicately: "The difficulty between you and us, gentlemen, is, that you will not send the right sort of people here. Why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Your Obt. Servt. | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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