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...debts of his new St. Patrick's Church. Father Cox, who in 1935 charged people 25? apiece to see a "miraculous" image of Christ formed in soot on a chimney which he had transported to Pittsburgh from a coal miner's shack in Collier, Pa., lately thought up and copyrighted a "Garden Stakes" contest, with cash prizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics & Chance | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

Only two ivy leaguers made Grantland Rice's All-American eleven now appearing in Collier's: Brud Holland of Cornell, end, and Clint Frank, quarterback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRANK, HOLLAND RATE POSTS ON GRANTLAND RICE ELEVEN | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...fact that they are obviously reminiscenses and true stories with only a light coat of fiction and that some of them were written for Collier's and Red Book Magazine, makes it possible to judge them not as creative literary efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 12/7/1937 | See Source »

...muddled case of mistaken affinity. The service staff at Totieigh Castle are running a sweepstakes on the young mistress' suitors, and Jerry is not even listed. Alyce (Joan Fontaine) has set her heart on an American ski jumper whom she met in Switzerland. Tyrannical Aunt Caroline (Constance Collier) is insisting on the British pianist (Ray Noble) who accompanies the madrigal singers. Alyce's final decision, urged on her by benign Lord Marshmorton (Montague Love), that the American occupying the nearby lodge is worth two in the distant Alps and Pianist Noble to boot, wins the sweepstakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

This summer the ticks got so bad in Florida's Orange, Osceola, Polk, Charlotte, Hendry and Collier counties that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ticks & Deer | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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