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...more piping times, Grace Line might have chosen for its radio debut travel-folder travelogues and bump Carib rhythms. But for 1940 audiences, it picked CBS News Analyst Elmer Davis for three 15-minute chats each week on the news of the day. Grace Line did not ask its broadcaster to pretend that there is no war at sea. In his broadcasts last week Davis reported a couple of sinkings, all the home-water problems involved in the Navy's proposed new five-year ship building program (see p. 77). These mat ters served more clearly to point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Elmer | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...play does all it can to cooperate. A piece of monstrous twaddle, so old-fashioned as to be almost refreshing, it concerns three generations of a hot-blooded Boer family who live somewhere on the veldt. The husbands systematically bully the wives, and the wives systematically bump off the husbands. Home life, between whiles, is saved from monotony by Satan (who arrives so punctually each day he could just as well deliver the mail), assorted ghosts, the old lady's coffin (which, pending its final function, she uses as a kind of chaise longue), windstorms, shotguns, sluts from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Spinning along a Washington highway this week, Justice McReynolds' car hit a bump, sloughed into a telephone pole guy wire. Unscathed, the Justice gruffed: "I feel quite chipper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Alone | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Mose Hallett, will be ready for limited play against the Tigers on Saturday. Macdonald will probably be used as a spot runner to put more punch in the attack at crucial moments. The third injured man, Joe Koufman, is definitely lost for the Princeton tilt with a leg bump received against the Indians. Yesterday Joe Devine replaced him in the A team, and Gene Lovett was shoved down to the second eleven...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Varsity Backfield Revamped as Spreyer Is Sent to Tailback Job | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

...announced the day before yesterday that Macdonald would not be available for duty against Dartmouth, but it was not until yesterday that final judgment was pronounced on Hallett. The big Junior tackle received a leg bump in Wednesday's scrimmage which sidelined him, but he will play against Princeton...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRIDMEN IN SHAPE FOR INDIAN CLASH | 10/27/1939 | See Source »

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