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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seven rambunctious Canadian mothers with a total of 65 children have been champing at the bit for four months demanding a verdict in the $500,000 Toronto Stork Derby (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), which concluded last Halloween. Last week they heard with relief that positively no claims filed after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mr. X & Mr. Y | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

At the Hollywood, Heloise made $50 a week. In addition she was soon drawing regular fees modeling for Murray Korman, a theatrical and commercial photographer who admired her "fine character, brown eyes, and 34 in. bust." Only hitch in her quick rise was that Father Martin suddenly determined that she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Adventures of Heloise | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

There is really only one character in the play: the Archbishop. Mr. Irving Locke, despite an occasional lapse of memory, rendered the role with an excellent proud reserve, the main thing called for.

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

Newspaper articles entitled "Why I hope to be the next Mayor of Boston" end the Curley question. For many years Massachusetts politicians have entertained rallies with descriptions of the ex-governor, and though the adjectives were always colorful, his friends and enemies could not seem to agree on the character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHY SLEEPING DOGS DON'T LIE | 3/16/1937 | See Source »

Oneof the best newsorgans in Germany today is the Frankfurter Zeitung. Its alert editors are not only internationally minded, but are constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Trottel | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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