Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morning's at Seven (by Paul Osborn; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). Two seasons ago the Broadway critics threw their hats in the air over Playwright Osborn's On Borrowed Time, a deft piece of flimsy-whimsey about a small boy, an old man, and Death kept at bay in an apple tree. When Osborn's Morning's at Seven opened last week, many more critical thumbs went down than hats went up. All the same, Morning's at Seven is as much better than On Borrowed Time as butter is than margarine...
...future the trend line as charted up to the present. Last week Dr. Ogburn observed that trend analysis had enabled U. of C. investigators to estimate the probability of parole violations, of happy or unhappy marriages. Such predictions do not take account of individual exceptions, but-like the death rate statistics of insurance actuaries, who are also social scientists- hold good for large numbers of subjects...
Inside, Comrade Browder was in rare form. The U. S, Government's passport-fraud case against him, said he, is "as thin as homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death" (a quote from Abraham Lincoln). Mr. Browder promised to show during his trial that "many highly respected businessmen, jurists and statesmen" had traveled "under pseudonyms...
...Alien Property Custodian after World War I, Francis P. Garvan sold seized German chemical patents to Chemical Foundation, Inc. As president of the Foundation he leased the processes to the industry. Last week the presidency of the foundation, vacant since his death two years ago, was filled again. His successor: 27-year-old lawyer and onetime Yale football manager, Francis P. Garvan...
Solitude, melancholy, the sense of death can become desperate problems; and plenty of travelers end their travels in alcohol or marriage. Yet "the number of suicides aboard trains is as small as that in church...