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...twice as large. When Hemingway traveled without his guide into wilder country to bag a kudu the real object of the hunt, Karl shot a much nobler specimen almost without effort. Since Green Hills of Africa is an attempt to write "an absolutely true book." Hemingway does not conceal his acute jealousy of Karl, or his bitter disappointment when each of his achievements was bettered. Since the book is also an experiment "to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can ... compete with a work of the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hunter's Credo | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...retired traveling salesman, a farmer and a Negro waiter named George W. Fullerton. Among the defendants, the jurors observed President Ned Depinet of RKO Distributing Corp., President George Schaefer of Paramount Pictures Distributing Co. and Warner Brothers' sleek little President Harry Warner who found it hard to conceal his chagrin when excited Lawyer Reed mistook his hat, which had fallen on the floor, for a spittoon, used it accordingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lawsuit in St. Louis | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

Thereafter, the comedy in The Goose and the Gander consists of the efforts of the guests at the lodge to conceal their identities. The picture's suspense is contributed by the jewel thieves' attempts to retrieve their swag. Its charm resides in the fact that George Brent can wrinkle his nose whereas Kay Francis cannot pronounce "r." Good shot: a bedazzled police chief (Spencer Charters) trying to make the company at the lodge explain what they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 23, 1935 | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Stormed SEC: "In this 'mutual' enterprise, profits go to promoters and advisers in the ratio of approximately 60% and to the investing 'bondholders' in the ratio of approximately 40%! No array of locally prominent names should be allowed to conceal these facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Easy Dupes | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones, 48, of Palm Springs, Calif. disguises the fact that he is one of the country's most prolific writers for the pulp press by a variety of pseudonyms. Far harder to conceal is his amazing family. Last March Mrs. Bedford-Jones II found herself in Chicago being sued for $200,000 for alienation of affections by Mrs. Bedford-Jones I. Taking the stand for her stepmother, Daughter Helen Bedford-Jones, 20, testified as follows against her mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: My Father Is a Liar | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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