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...first impression of many a newsreader last week was that poor little Shirley Temple was fried to a crisp; that Madeleine Carroll was dead-not by the bullet of a rival spy, but by incineration; that nothing was left of Leo Carrillo but his accent; that Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Dix. June Lang and Oliver Hardy were not much better than ingredients in a huge Thanksgiving Barbecue. In the press, pictures of these notables were accompanied by such headlines as FOREST FIRES RAZE FILM COLONY HOMES, and FLAMES WRECK HOMES OF STARS; TOWNS IN PERIL...
Dimond and Davis are strongly behind the proposed Polar Club. "There ought to be more students around here to enjoy the crisp winter air. After all, now that outdoor athletics have stopped and skiing is not convenient during the week, we all should enjoy the bracing Charles...
TIME'S crisp new cover and crisp new captions fit TIME'S crisp contents perfectly. Congratulations...
Instead of sockdolager "Effective Temperature " (TIME, Sept. 19, p. 6) try obvious, artificial, suggestive, crisp TEMPEFFECT. DWIGHT M. BECK Syracuse...
...from making any secret last week of what they called "trial mobilization," Nazi authorities in Berlin took no steps to hamper the sending out by correspondents of crisp, alarming details...