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...being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene in a Hamburg stand with a proprietor who defends with incredible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/13/1935 | See Source »

...harvest of his finer fruits was assembled by Publisher David Kemp last week and issued in book form with an introduction by a still more spectacular young man named Lucius Morris Beebe. A hulking, hollow-voiced columnist on the Herald Tribune, Lucius Morris Beebe hires Rolls-Royces to attend cock fights, occasionally wears a silk hat to work, and is known to a whole decade of awed Yale undergraduates as the last of the boulevardiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Zerbesques | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...inner wall offers streptococci an ideal breeding place. The peritonitis which results is exceedingly hard to cure. A high percentage of peritonitis cases die, and many of the remainder suffer lifelong pain and debility from adhesions. Because of the difficulty of coping with this form of infection all surgeons cock hopeful ears toward any serious colleague who promises them a preventive of peritonitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Peritonitis Preventives | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Duce himself will dash from post to post to see that all of them are on their toes. The first day of maneuvers caught him in the Futa Pass in the Apppenines just as a regiment of cock-feathered Bersaglieri, the corps in which he served during the War, was passing. Out of his staff jumped Benito to shoulder a rifle and stride along with the column for over a mile. Promptly he amended his orderto his Cabinetnot only to serve with the trrops, but to mix with the trops "to get into the spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Retreat to Games | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

...America except to tell us of his experiences as a midshipman or whatever they call it in the American Navy at West Point.* On one occasion I remember his telling us of his greatest feat as a midshipman when he plucked and painted an eagle as a cock and entered it in a cockfighting contest. Of course the eagle demolished the prize birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 20, 1934 | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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