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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March 1928 True Story, just out, is comparatively clean with such human interest stories as: "Thirty Days to Live," "His Last Moment of Glory," "Wings of Love" (aviators), "The Salvation of a Bank Burglar." It has only four faintly off-color confessions. But the March True Experiences could almost be read at a Sunday school picnic. It has a wholesome girl on the cover, properly clad in a red dress with white collar; an editorial by Mr. Macfadden entitled "Broaden Your Outlook." Among the confessions are "The Girl of the Golden Heart," "MatchMaking Mothers," "When Loyalty Calls." Attempted seductions: three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Diluted Sex | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...income from subscriptions and advertisements must be profitable. The nickel paid for a copy of the Saturday Evening Post does not pay for the cost of paper alone. But the $8,000 that the magazine charges for a full-page advertisement in black and the $11,500 for four-color pages yield profits which financiers are beginning to exploit. Each reader may be a prospect for the sale of such securities, just as almost every user of electricity in the U. S. has been offered investments in his "home" public utility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Periodicals | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

...contrast, because the paintings were neither. They are difficult paintings to write about. When Georgia O'Keeffe paints flowers, she does not paint fifty flowers stuffed into a dish. On most of her canvases there appeared one gigantic bloom, its huge feathery petals furled into some astonishing pattern of color and shade and line. A bee, busy with a paint brush, might so have reproduced the soft, enormous caves in which his pasturage is found. One of the.insects out of Henri Fabre, some thoughtful, sensitive caterpillar who had read Freud, might have so pictured the green and perpendicular avenues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On View | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

Fiend Crowe is 35, 5 ft. 5 in. tall, slim, weighs 140 Ibs. His hair is black and kinky, his eyebrows heavy, his ears big, his eyes maroon. He can change his skin color. It is normally brown. But at times he makes it appear lighter with a chemical, at other times darker with a lotion. The Tribune's squad of man-and-news hunters have been unable to find him during five months search. He had disappeared well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch-Scamps | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...second annual exhibition of works of art collected by students of the University and Radcliffe College is being held in the water-color room of the New Fogg Museum. The exhibit opened February 11 and will continue until March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/14/1928 | See Source »

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