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...point until they have obliged him by eliminating each other. Thereupon he marries Lady Jane Grey (Nova Pilbeam) to his son and has her crowned. Nine days later Mary Tudor, Henry VIII's daughter, storms into London with the northern counties at her back and ends upon the scaffold Warwick's cloudy dreaming and the brief, pitiable queenship of his daughter-in-law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nine Days a Queen | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Nazi newsorgans, normally obliged to be as hostile to Negroes as to Jews, were permitted to quote Schmeling as saying: "Louis is a great boxer with a perfect eye who never misses an opening." While Mother Schmeling, her son and daughter-in-law were lunching festively with Adolf Hitler, the Party's afternoon newsorgan Der Angriff printed a special edition explaining that Louis was defeated because before the fight Schmeling "was allowed to speak with the Realmleader and his Ministers, and from that moment Schmeling's will for victory was boundless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Schmeling Reward | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...This raised the issue of freedom of the Press in France to its maximum power. Very tamely indeed Le Journal's revelations coupled Adolf Hitler's name with Jenny Hang, his chauffeur's sister; Erna Hanfstaengl, sister of his friend "Putzy"; Frau Winifred Wagner, widowed daughter-in-law of the composer; Margaret Slezak, daughter of a Viennese tenor; the Realmleader's late niece Greta Granbald; and the German cinema's lithe-limbed Leni Riefenstahl, who was quoted as having said with utmost respect of Adolf Hitler, "The Realmleader could not love except platonically." (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Let's Be Friends! | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

News to many a parent last week was this dictum by Mrs. Theodore Miller Edison, daughter-in-law of the late inventor: "In the minds of some, preparation for marriage too often is associated with the physical aspect of sex, whereas the philosophical and spiritual considerations are equally important. All three should develop together in the mind of the child. Erroneous [is the] belief that knowing the facts of life would destroy the innocence of their children. Certainly ignorance is a flimsy guaranty of innocence. Accurate knowledge can provide a much firmer foundation for a wholesome attitude toward life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pedoculture | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...suburb Palos Park, Mrs. Florence Zeller gave her dead ring-tailed monkey, Monty, a $35 embalming, a white plush coffin and a fine funeral with four small children as pallbearers. To an assemblage of neighborhood children, two live monkeys, a bulldog and a cat, Mrs. Zeller's daughter-in-law read the 23rd Psalm. Absent was Mr. Zeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Different | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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