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...other writer like Margaret Mitchell; such others as Caroline Miller (Lamb in His Bosom); Evelyn Hanna (Blackberry. Winter); Harry Lee (Fox in the Cloak); a tolerated museum of art, music club, theatre guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Crossroad Town | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Addressing his cheering fellow-veterans, he said, "As your national commander I pledge myself to go from this convention and make known to our fellow-citizens your mandate to keep our nation out of any armed conflict overseas. . . . Attempting to cloak our neutrality with a biased belligerency must inevitably lead us straight into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: No Seven-Toed Pete | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Though 61-year-old Lionel Barrymore makes expert use of his wheel chair, a prop dear to a character actor as sword & cloak to a romantic hero, in scene-stealing honors 8-year-old Bobs Watson comes off best. Youngest son of an oldtime actor who has four other children in the movies Cinemactor Watson has appeared in 29 pictures, now earns about $800 a week He got the role of Pud after its Broadway incumbent, 8-year-old Peter Holden, was judged too mature for the part. Swamped by autograph seekers at the preview of On Borrowed Time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 17, 1939 | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...urchins from Greenwich Village (one planned to exercise his U. S. freedom of initiative to become a prizefighter) and Italian-born New York City Treasurer Commendatore Almerindo Portfolio, who rose from a $2-a-week messenger to the presidency of the Bank of Sicily and the head of a cloak & suit concern (which in 1924 he gave to six employes). Commendatore Portfolio's talk was rapturous, anti-nobody, fairly brief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cause | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...would shy in dismay from any public demonstration of simple school spirit. But secretly most of them admit that all is not well here, that there might be a more ideal attitude. And certainly they would not wish to see Dartmouth hide its spontaneous war-whoops under a hypocritical cloak of assumed indifference. It is not for Harvard men, but they see something vital and healthy in the rah-rah spirit which pervades most of the nation's campuses. So back to the tepees of your fathers, young bucks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BACK TO YOUR TEPEE | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

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