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One thing no dictator can do is control the weather. Another thing no dictator can do is make cinemaddicts prefer one movie star to another. Hollywood's dictator, the box office, realistically recognizes this fact, always bows to the unpredictable will of the people. Last week a nationwide poll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Vox Pop | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Capitalizing on news-accounts of John Nance Garner's criticism of his wife's new hat ("It makes you look like a flapper"-TIME, Nov. 29), Manhattan's publicity-wise Arnold Constable & Co. dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

The Academy of Political Science, a prosperous group of U. S. businessmen, professors and economists at whose gatherings white ties are more in evidence than Windsor bows, made large headlines in 1933 when George Bernard Shaw delivered a saucy socialistic speech under its auspices at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Friendly Words | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

"The best end on the Dartmouth squad with all bows to everyone, is Sophomore Whit Miller. . . . Miller wins the nod for his consistence on the defense and his fine blocking tactics on the offense. . . ."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Says | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

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