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As far back as records go the Welsh have been a singing people, rating a good voice next to royal blood, competing valiantly in song festivals, regarding music and poetry as national sports. Roman Poseidonius of Apamea noted in the second Century B.C., that the inhabitants of Wales "have poets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eisteddfod | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Incidentally, the instructor who corrected each question would then only have to decipher one handwriting. This would serve the manifold purpose of allowing each student to concentrate on a certain point, of getting the best opinion available among the section men on the value of the answers he wrote, of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

Motoring near San Rafael, about 14 mi. north of San Francisco one day last summer, one Beryle Shinn had a puncture, decided to stop for picnic lunch on a nearby grassy bluff. Mr. Shinn squatted, found himself on a rock, lifted it, saw a dingy piece of metal. He rubbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Nova Albion | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

"Joe Radek, he like everybody and everybody like Joe Radek," says the hero of this picture when it starts. Presently, Joe Radek (Paul Muni) learns that he has been mistaken. A Pennsylvania coal miner with nothing on his mind except his girl Anna (Karen Morley), he is so dismayed when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

``What They Are Saying" is the Mirror's contest, copied by permission from London Tit-Bits. A set of four action photographs is printed every day for 28 days. Object: to guess which of 48 suggested "sayings" best fits each picture. All readers of this gumchewers' sheetlet who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Win $$$$$$$$ | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

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