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...exceeded 100,000 readers. President William E. Wheeler, a high-powered Manhattan adman, thought he had found new support when suddenly the New York State Bureau of Securities descended on him for permitting the sale of New York Woman stock within two weeks of the magazine's coma. Publisher Wheeler, who had asked permission to reorganize under Section 776 of the National Bankruptcy Act, indignantly maintained that his prospectus had told all, prepared to fight the State's charge in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Little One, Big Ones | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...plant, "the history of Spain takes on the clear expressiveness of a gesture, and the modern incidents with which the vast attitude is ending are as self-explanatory as cheeks marked by anguish or a hand that falls exhausted." Spain's last 300 years Ortega calls a "long coma of egotism and idiocy . . . today we are not so much a people as a cloud of dust that was left hovering in the air when a great people went galloping down the high road of history." The sectionalism which has marked modern Spanish history, notably the movements for Basque...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ortega on Spain | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

Many years ago, John Stink did go into a state of coma while afflicted with smallpox during an Osage epidemic. He was "buried," according to tribal custom, with some of his personal effects atop the ground. Then, also according to custom, his relatives divided his horses and other property, held a few wailing feasts and proceeded to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...King and the Chorus Girl (Warner Brothers) starts with a sequence in which a Paris doctor diagnoses the alarming coma of young ex-King Alfred (Fernand Gravet). "Never in my entire life," he tells the ex-King's ex-Chancellor (Edward Everett Horton), "have I ever seen anyone so completely drunk." Between this sequence and the picture's last, exhibiting an ocean liner at Niagara Falls, The King and the Chorus Girl whirls through a series of urbanely insane and expertly executed narrative gyrations which make it probably the most unique and certainly the most enjoyable light comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...should the fine expansion of the talks stop the growth of other aids to Unionists. The Committee cannot rest after one step with a long ladder yet to go. Special effort will be needed to awaken exam reviews from the coma they entered following last year's disappointment, and many parts of the Confidential Guide will be dropped or changed. Nor must the proctors feel any less needed for advice now that their charges are given official pictures of future courses. The Union Committee's program is a happy addition to first year guidance and not a substitute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BETTER AND BETTER | 2/20/1937 | See Source »

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