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Baseball superstition says that the team which is leading each major league on July 4 will win the pennant. Last July 4, the New York Giants were nine games ahead in the National League, the New York Yankees one game ahead in the American League. More logical is the belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Third Base to Home | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

Exulted Liberal King at Ottawa last week: "I hope this will lead Premier Bennett to see what he can expect as a result of refusing the dissolution of Parliament we have asked and clinging to office to the very last minute!'' Of caustic Mr. King and the ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Last Coffin Nail | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

Suddenly among the Bagdad's sippers of tea, Dubonnet and citron presse appeared Miss Warner in a clinging, translucent gown, her hands manacled at the wrists, her mien intense. She had invented her "Slave Dance" after being distanced by the competition of Fan Dancer Sally Rand at Chicago'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Central, prosperous Hankow, a teeming city (pop. 1,500,000) sometimes called "the Chicago of China," cowered in collective panic as most of the subsidiary dike systems were swept away and the great Chang-kung Dike built of cement under foreign supervision in 1931 held precariously. Amphibian planes reconnoitering above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Water Woe | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Published last week was the second of the series, The Puritan Strain. Shrewdly made up of the time-tested ingredients of the familiar triangle plot, it tells the story of 40-year-old Elizabeth Condit Gates who, like the heroine of many a popular romance, fell high-mindedly in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brooklyn Best Seller | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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