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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WANTED: Position as cartoonist with newspaper or magazine art department. I am American born, a high school graduate with character, good sense of humor, and ambition to earn and hold a cartoonist's job. Have studied subject five years, done mimeograph and pen-and-ink work, sold a few...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Moral. Had Faulkner been content to let The Wild Palms rest with the convict's story, the book might have become a classic of involuntary adventure. It is a pulsing, racing story, a kind of hysterical Huckleberry Finn, its humor at once grotesque and shrewd, its moral at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Dam Breaks | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

In the South African teeth, Dr. Gregory also found connections with Peking Man, the orangutan, and Sivapithecus, a manlike fossil ape discovered many years ago in India. The geological character of the ground, however, indicated that Dr. Broom's creatures lived relatively late in the Glacial Age, by which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ape-Men and Prigs | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Since Don Juan, however sinful, is most attractive character, many an author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Juan, Cont'd | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

For instance, John Brown, the faithful Scotsman, as played by James Gibson, not only helps to depict a new development in Victoria's character, but also emerges as a man whose wisdom is sprung from many years of contact with the soil. If Ernest Clark, moreover, as Albert's brother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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