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The Unguarded Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is an elaborate demonstration of the not particularly startling hypothesis that any man's life contains moments when his whereabouts, if later questioned, would be hard to prove. Lady Dearden (Loretta Young) agrees to pay a blackmailer ?2,000 for letters written by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 13, 1936 | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

The title of business manager did small justice to Louis Wiley's journalistic functions. No mere countingroom man, he was Publisher Adolph Ochs's confidant, adviser, ambassador, and on occasion, alter ego. Just short of 40 years ago he first approached Mr. Ochs, who had bought the moribund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Death of Wiley | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Having pumped his best testimony from Mr. Mellon's confidant, Counsel Jackson was forced to let Counsel Hogan make his point-of-the-week by means of a Government witness. Thumping away at his theme song of political persecution, Lawyer Hogan got a Deputy Commissioner of Internal Revenue to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Reputation v. Reputation | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

The weekly political story in News Of The World has long been the paper's only claim to respectability. For years these serious articles have been amazingly sound and often just as amazingly forehanded. They are a lasting epitaph to that quality in Lord Riddell's personality which made him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Death of Riddell | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

"We will entrust," said Dr. Klein, "the job of keeping the German people physically fit, not to the so-called modern specialist, but to the old-fashioned family doctor. Let the young medical students take him for their model. The grand old general physician is what I have in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Grand Old Confidants | 1/22/1934 | See Source »

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