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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After fighting long and hard against the strong groundswell of the publishing business, Scribner's Magazine last May crashed on a reef and foundered. But too old and honored was Scribner's to be abandoned utterly. First, Publisher Dave Smart of Esquire went salvaging on the spot where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scribner's Raised | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

One Indian summery evening last week 1,000 people gathered in Manhattan to praise "America's greatest philosopher." It was John Dewey's 80th birthday, and many distinguished men and women-among them Chinese Ambassador Hu Shih, Charles Beard, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Fiorello LaGuardia-had come to his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dewey at 80 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Ladies and Gentlemen (produced by Gilbert Miller; by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete) brings Near-Divinity Helen Hayes back to Broadway in her first new role there since December 1935. For this Broadway can rejoice, even though finding anything to rejoice at in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Harts & Flowers | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Said former Press Club President Charles Orville Gridley of the Denver Post: "Not all newspapermen are tousled-haired drunkards. Some of us are bald. Others actually comb their hair occasionally."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mr. Smith Riles Washington | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

Jamaica Inn (Mayflower). Fans of Director Alfred Hitchcock had a surprise in store for them when they got the wrappings off this Hitchcock picture. They found it was no Hitchcock but an authentic Laughton. Scarcely a shot in the whole picture revealed the famed British director's old mastery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1939 | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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