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...which is never called anything but an "M. G.,"† is the supreme British bantam sport car and some of the firm's business is in supplying custom-made chassis to road-racing Britons who like to zip and roar. A minuscule M. G. has recently done 140 m.p.h. under test conditions in Germany. Those offered in Manhattan are a super-doodlebug at $1,435, promised to do 83 m.p.h., and a species of semi-sport sedan at $2,550 brought out this year in England for the first time...
...Journal (631,000), tabloid Mirror (555,000)-and his 25 other mouthpieces throughout the land, shrill William Randolph Hearst has dinned his hatred of the New Deal day in, day out, furnished Franklin Roosevelt with his noisiest opposition. After almost 40 years the Hearst crusades have grown stale with custom and the Hearst political influence is uniformly discounted by experienced observers. But, win or lose next week, Publisher Hearst himself is sure of a place in the history of the 1936 campaign. It was he who "discovered" Alf Landon, put him on the nation's front page (TIME, Sept...
...believes further that in this day and generation it is absurd to try to maintain the tradition of royal intermarriages, with all the physical as well as political disabilities likely to result from that outgrown custom. "His brother, the Duke of York, has been extremely happy and fortunate in his marriage to a lady of the people, a commoner, socalled...
...handsome models he bought, one for six cows, or approximately ?4. (He tried to hire them, but their parents could see no "difference between a model and a wife.") He writes well about native dances and about the tall, strapping Dinkas, who are great fishermen, great dancers and whose custom it is to straighten their hair with cows' urine and paint their faces white...
...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...