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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Fiddle. Because Sonja Henie is still a celebrity-in-the-movies rather than a movie celebrity, a skater who plays in skating pictures, her cinema personality is closer to her real one than Hollywood usually allows. Many of her more literal-minded fans, indeed, have a tendency to interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gee-Whizzer | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

Scientifiction, which deals almost exclusively with the world of tomorrow and life on other planets, was inspired by Jules Verne's and H. G. Wells's fantasies. Father of pseudo-scientific magazines was a shrewd, fat old man named Hugo Gernsback, an old-time radio fan, who in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amazing! Astounding! | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

To generous radio station WOR, time donated to pure Americanism is time well-spent. But free time attacking a specific political view usually means, in radio's unofficial code, more free time defending it. Last week, just before Mrs. Rushmore Patterson rushed off to South Dakota to attend ceremonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cause | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

The Alcoa suit's long-distance mark for consecutive testimony was set last spring by Edward K. Davis, publicity-shy president of Aluminium Limited of Canada. Younger brother (59) of Alcoa's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, Mr. Davis held the stand for six and a half weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

One of the big trees in the Federal forest is the contention that when Arthur Vining Davis organized Aluminium Ltd. in 1928, he had no intention of making it a competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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