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Each day's hunt lasted five hours. Contestants were scored on hunting (trying to pick up a trail); trailing; speed and driving (racing against one another in the chase); endurance. Misbehaviors which meant disqualification: "babbling" (barking to the extent of interfering with the chase); "loafing"' (showing no inclination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxhunters | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

To perplexed Parisian newshawks Gertrude Stein explained a libretto she has just completed for her second opera,* a Steinish version of Faust: Faust "sells his soul over and over again hoping to go to hell. He kills his boy and dog to really sin and go to hell and is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 28, 1938 | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

The Friends. Chief insider in the 'Beaverbrook set" is fat, bland, arrogant Valentine Edward Charles (''Val") Browne, Viscount Castlerosse, who is regarded in London as an English Walter Winchell, gets $25,000 a year for turning out a half page of heavy chitchat for the Sunday Express...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Curious Fellow | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

That they entered their wrath and their attack on an educational institution is highly unfortunate. Any unprejudiced analysis has always shown that Harvard leans over backward to shun official political relationships. To bellow that Harvard has a desire to rule Cambridge, and that therefore it must, like some naughty school...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE CAMOUFLAGE | 10/20/1938 | See Source »

Ever since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the utility industry has resembled a poker game with vast stakes and SEC Chairman William O. Douglas dealing. Last week, Bill Douglas dealt a new hand to an intriguing set of opponents-lean, smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC UTILITIES: Aces over Kings | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

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