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TIME, never more full of good blood, shudders at the thought of death. Do other readers agree that since late 1936, boredom has crept in? If so, please give counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked, their clothes burned away, their skin and flesh in sizzling tatters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Oh, the Humanity! | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...died, sects such as the Cainites came to believe that Judas acted as he did to hasten the redemption of mankind, and the scholar Origen maintained that the betrayer hanged himself to seek Christ's forgiveness as soon as possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes in the South of the U. S., and last week it made news in Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Redbud Row | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Crimson got off to an early lead as Luiz sunk two, and Legg dropped another, but Yale slowly crept up and at the end of the half led by a score of 23-12. Despite all attempts to rally, the Yardling hoopsters were unable to regain the lead throughout the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee and Yardling Fives Bow to Superior Eli Teams | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...brave enough" to see herself on the screen, Viennese Cinemactress Elisabeth Bergner fidgeted in an office at the London Pavilion while Queen Mary viewed her latest film. Dreaming Lips, crept to her seat in time to be presented as the performance ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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