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Since Wayne Gard writes in what critics have called the Little-Did-He-Think school of biography, his labors to enhance Bass's reputation as a bad man are largely in vain. Instead of a portrait of a bold gunman defying the law, readers are likely to think of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second-Rate Badman | 8/3/1936 | See Source »

KNOCKOUT - Charles Francis Coe - Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

Part of the reason that And So They Were Married is better-than-average entertainment is that its 10-year-olds are endowed with adult minds and motives, a situation producing an unusual potency in the pranks the children commit, such as making a major catastrophe of a hotel Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 25, 1936 | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

To Austrians, proudly celebrating the same anniversary in Vienna last week, this was a cruel cut. Eugene of Savoy, neither German nor Austrian, was born in France and raised in Louis XIV's court. Louis despised Eugene's big-nostriled face, crooked little frame, cold, dogged stare.'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Happy Birthday | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Good fishing at Mariguana yesterday. We are spending a quiet Sunday off Crooked Island and proceed to Cat Cay tomorrow. All well. F. D. R.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: All Well | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

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