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...Vermont college town. Producer Walter ; Wanger has a theory of picture-making akin to Baseball's immortal Willie Keeler's formula for a good batting average ("Hit 'em where they ain't"). Hence this film, a reworking of the essentials of Allene Corliss' Summer Lightning (cloudbursts & all) aims soberly at the heart where most other cinemakers would aim at the funny bone. Whether the box offices will consider Producer Wanger as nifty a batter as Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...many Stalin sunworshippers there may be in the U. S. could be guessed from a festive evening in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week which opened with the Star-Spangled Banner and the Internationale. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament's son Corliss, who describes himself as "not a Communist but a critical Communist sympathizer," was on hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Our Sun! | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...CORLISS LAMONT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1937 | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...five liberals who were named on the petition are Robert M. Lovett '12, professor at the University of Chicago and identified with labor movements there; Roger N. Baldwin '05, president of the American Civil Liberties Union; Lloyd K. Garrison '19, dean of the Wisconsin University Law School; Corliss Lamont '24, well known liberal of New York; and Julian W. Mack '87, New York judge. The name of the latter is, however, being placed on the ballot because of a petition received previously which had the necessary 200 signatures all of which were eligible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJECT FIVE NAMES NOMINATED TO THE OVERSEERS BOARD | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...were CRIMSON editors are: Thomas W. Lamont '92, Jerome D. Greene '96, Henry James '99, Robert J. Bucklye '02, Joseph Clark Grew '02, Arthur A. Ballantine '04, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, Hanford MacNider '11, Arthur Sweetser '12, James B. Conant '14, Edward A. Whitney '17, Rupert Emerson '22, and Corliss Lamont...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Competitions for All Boards Commence Tonight With Outline of Duties and Display of Building | 2/17/1937 | See Source »

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