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Comes terrifically the storm on Masterson's yacht. For one brief hour all his self-doubting and humility are forgotten as he drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Masterson | 5/3/1926 | See Source »

One of the most miserable and mystifying celebrities in all literary history is now subjected to the probes of advanced psychology. His life and works are considered, as never so thoroughly before, in an inextricable interrelation. The finding, less surprising for its nature than its seemingly complete demonstrability, is this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychic Impotence | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

As her cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wills v. Lenglen | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

Unless integrity is at discount in Manhattan as compared with the average school community, school children are sly and mousing when taking examinations. That was the inference the National Vocational Guidance Association could but draw from a paper read before it last week at its meeting in Washington, by Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cheater Children | 3/1/1926 | See Source »

The Theatre Guild has staged this weird adventure with all the cunning resources at its command. Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Blanche Yurka, George Gaul, Helen Westley, Dwight Frye, Albert Bruning and other notables head an apparently endless cast. Acting, setting and direction are superb. Goat Song can be set down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 8, 1926 | 2/8/1926 | See Source »

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