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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brighton, Pa., Health Officer Fred Myers, called by neighbors to investigate a house in which gas lights had shone night and day for two weeks, found a dead man sitting in a chair, an open book beside him. Said the man's widow: "I thought there was something wrong. He wouldn't talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

...Student Union dramatic group will hold tryouts in Brooks House at 4 o'clock this afternoon for its fall production of Irwin Shaw's anti-war play, "Bury the Dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Bury the Dead" Tryouts Today | 11/9/1939 | See Source »

...Most telling BBC Hitler-baiter : Band Waggon's little Arthur Askey, cooking up ingenious schemes for pestering a certain Mr. Nasty. Sample: Plotting to train 5,000 parrots to fly over old Nasty's House at Birdsgarden, singing "We'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Swing and Mr. Nasty | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...waitress, Harriet Mercer, who last summer sailed for France to marry Prince Batoula of Senegal (TIME, July 10). She had not married the Prince. Reason: "international complications," including publication of the fact that she had a husband, Pullman Porter Clarence Rollins. Said Harriet: "For all I knew Clarence was dead. The last I ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...which make such flying possible. But the author's enthusiasm alone is more than disarming on that score. What he has done is simply to give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling misapprehensions, has clearly suggested a seeing and reading of a world no groundling can know, has need neither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Popular Flying | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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