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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Lieut. Col. Sir Alan Hughes Burgoyne, 48, of Buckinghamshire, England, Conservative member of Parliament, military author, board chairman of 30 companies (phonographs, rubber, books, oil, wine, mines, banks); in Buckinghamshire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hobo Gone Babbitt | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into a river. Clown. In Berlin, Adrian Wettach of Biel, Switzerland, famed through Europe as Clown Crock, last week formed his own picture company, announced that he would be actor, director, author; that his films would rival Charles Chaplin's; that they would have no happy endings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations May 6, 1929 | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Author Hackett groups his history of Henry around the six wives. Some of them were of profound political influence. The roster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy Tudor | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Significance. Author Hackett's Henry is immense. Others who have written biographically of the gigantic, simpleminded, "red-tempered," go-getter king include: Froude (hero worship in magnificent prose); Gasquet (colored with religious emotion); H. A. L. Fisher (fairly, in The Political History of England, vol. 6). And there is the monumental Letters and Papers of the Reign of Henry VIII, 21 vols., a work of 50 years, deep mine of source material. Author Hackett used these and many another book and record. He worked on his biography over a period of six years. It has the best of material (perhaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy Tudor | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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