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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...villa, Chateau La Croe on the French Riviera, leased by the Duke & Duchess of Windsor fortnight ago, announced Windsor Castle last week, "does not contain any gold bathtub...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tale of a Tub | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

This issue of the CRIMSON is being mailed to all members of the Class of 1913, which will hold its 25th reunion this June. Pages 3, 4, 5, and 7 contain reprints of articles which appeared in the CRIMSON in the spring of 1913; a representative notice column of the period appears on page 5. The complete reunion program of the class may be found on page 3, including all the activities in which the class will indulge from Monday, June 20, to Thursday, June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Members of Class of '13, Reuniting on June 20, Receive This Issue of Crimson by Mail Today | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Embryonic screen writers were told that a screen story to be successful must contain the stock formula of "Boy meets girl". Studio executives, she said, assign writers to build such stories around a star, a baby starlet, 100 beauty contest winners, a song, or somebody's wife's hat. You must be able to tell the director your story in one sentence, she warned, or it will not be considered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM WRITER REVEALS WAY TO MOVIE SUCCESS | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

Lucid But Not Light. The Evolution of Physics does not contain a single mathematical equation or formula, but it is studded with a number of helpful diagrams. Co-author Infeld writes with lucid, straightforward simplicity, not devoid of patches of whimsey-as, for example, having shown how modern physics banished the concept of a jelly-like ether which carries light waves, he thereafter refers to the ether, when necessary, as if it were a swearword: "e-r." The authors admit that the avoidance of mathematical languages involves a certain loss of precision. But the loss is held to a minimum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...rate of two pages a day, assuming that Mr. Allen labored five days a week, took a two-weeks' vacation each year and yearly observed the seven national holidays, it is mathematically apparent that Anthony Adverse should contain 2,430 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1938 | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

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