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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cried Browder later: "A beautiful reception. The students were beautifully behaved." The American Civil Liberties Union congratulated President Seymour. Whooped the New York Daily News: 3,000 BOOLA Boo BROWDER AT YALE. But the World-Telegram, which believes that the Browder menace is no laughing matter, hissed: "Liberalism ... has its sophomore class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Browder at Yale | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Author Sanderson and his wife (they were on their honeymoon) had no run-ins with larger animals. A jaguar watched from a tree as he cleaned his gun, fled when he said Boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Hunter | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...LONG DREAM - Sigrid Boo - Dutton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boo's Bow | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Oslo Kathleen Norris whose eight books have been translated into 13 languages, Sigrid Boo (rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boo's Bow | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Novelist Boo weaves a leisurely ring around the triangle of Dagrun Styhr, her husband, Paul, and Steffen Thomasgard, the man whom Dagrun had first loved and whom she returns to see. So slow-paced is the book that even its climax, when Dagrun and Steffen are marooned overnight on a deserted island, seems unexciting. Sigrid Boo thinks her book would make a good movie, hopes that fellow Scandinavian Garbo will play the lead. It would take the Garbo face and voice to put umph in such a gentle boo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boo's Bow | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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