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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrities & Shims | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Utilities Power & Light Harley Clarke built along classic lines. The operating companies, serving 488 communities in Britain and 587 in the U. S. and Canada stemmed down from Utilities Power & Light Corp., a traditional holding company. Working control of this holding company, however, was held by a super-holding company called Public Utilities Securities Corp. ("Pusco"). On top of Pusco was a private super-super holding company, and on top of that was Harley Lyman Clarke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Odium in Action | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Donne and Gargantua, All Slimmer in a Day), she has previously been best known for her calm, highbrow aloofness, her volumes of verse, her idiosyncratic individualism, her interest in famed British eccentrics, her biography of Alexander Pope. Now 49, she is tall (over 6 ft.), blonde, unmarried, with straight classic features. Readers who know her previous books will be surprised at the interest in social conditions revealed in Victoria of England and at Author Sitwell's sympathy for the sufferings and struggles of the poor. Together with the artful sketches of the celebrities around the Queen, chapters illuminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Celebrities & Shims | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken down by Chinese officers of his command, one getting $600,000. 4) He got away safely to Hongkong with possibly the largest haul ever made by a Chinese commander in this classic maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Good News | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

That, last week, was the Arlington Classic, feature race of the 30-day meeting at the Midwest's greatest race track. Purse for the eighth running of the Classic was $35,000. That the Arlington Classic will eventually be worth $100,000 and the most celebrated horse race in the world was the proud prospect offered to Chicago last week by the Arlington Park Jockey Club's Founder John Daniel Hertz. Discussing the track's policy and progress, Mr. Hertz announced that since 1929 Arlington Park has repaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses & Courses | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

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