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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking Governor Gabby Harrigan (John Barrymore) at the height of his campaign for a seat in the U. S. Senate, Hold that Co-ed shows him publicizing himself by lavishing money on State College, making its football team the best in the country. The rest of the picture divides its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Among these agile regionalists none is subtler than Poet Allen Tate, who has written biographies (Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis), contributed to regional anthologies,, made himself their best-known spokesman. The Fathers, his first novel, exhibits Border-State mentality at its most devious. The story, laid in Virginia and Maryland during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Border State of Mind | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Theodore Roosevelt characterized his age when he preached the virtues of the strenuous life. To later students, that period looks more like a hyperthyroid era of American history-an era marked by strident praise of action for the sake of action, when Richard Harding Davis was reporting breathless adventures in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Strenuous Life | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

The team from Down Under was a twosome: 25-year-old Adrian Quist, a fifth year Davis Cupper rated by many as the world's No. 2 amateur; and 19-year-old John Bromwich, a sophomore who caused a sensation in international tennis last year with his either-handed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Even Dozen | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

For the twelfth time the U. S. had won the Davis Cup, put up in 1900 by onetime U. S. Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Even Dozen | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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