Word: aug
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to make a correction of a serious error in your report on the death of John William Navin Sullivan in TIME, Aug. 23, at top of p. 26, since your statement attaches an undeserved stigma on his family. Mr. Sullivan was under my care at the London Hospital shortly before his death, when he was suffering from complete paralysis of both legs. But it was not due to or associated with syphilis, nor was the clinical picture hardly suggestive of syphilis...
Referring to "Flight v. Glide" [TIME, Aug. 30] I can add further testimony that flying fish fly, and sometimes fly high...
...with the aid of white Southern Methodists, numbers 300,000. Same 210,000 Negroes belong to black congregations of Northern Methodist jurisdiction, will be grouped in a jurisdiction of their own (against the will of many Negroes) if the proposed merger of Southern and Northern Methodists goes through (TIME, Aug. 26, 1935, et seq.). The church which Philadelphia's Bishop Allen founded claims 1,000,000 members in the U. S., West Indies and Africa. Governed by no central authority, it has 15 bishops and a clergy of 8,000. Host to last week's sequicentennial was Bishop...
...Manhattan's film appetite seemed temporarily queasy, U. S. fans at large were definitely peckish. Though Hollywood had sent out 62 feature pictures since Aug. 1, theatres everywhere were frantically calling for more. Variety, sympathizing with Hollywood's production problems, headlined that the exhibitors were BURNING UP PIX TOO FAST. The paper implied that exhibitors had brought this famine on themselves by insisting on the double-feature, by not holding over hits for longer runs. Fact remained, however, that last week, when the season should normally be well under way, Hollywood released only one Class-A picture...
Young Jewish Violinist Yehudi Menuhin recently announced he would play the world premiere of Robert Schumann's lost violin concerto in St. Louis on Nov. 12 (TIME, Aug. 23). At his summer home in Los Gatos, Calif. Violinist Menuhin last week received the following cable from Germany: "German Government decided today world premiére performance Schumann Concerto can only take place at official anniversary Reichskulturkammer, Berlin, Nov. 13. All previously announced first performances elsewhere with piano accompaniment must be postponed...