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...den among a maze of pipes in the basement of Adams House, Held is arranging his studio where he will spend the next few months sculpting, painting, and receiving interested student callers. According to a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, he will serve as "artist in residence," continuing his own work and helping students in creative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Held, Jr., Famous Cartoonist, to Have Residence and Studio in Adams | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

Died. Rosalynd Amper, fortyish, once the toast of Shanghai night-lifers; in an opium den, pipe in hand; in Shanghai. Blonde, lissome Rosalynd Amper began singing in 1923 in Shanghai's Del Monte Cafe, surrounded herself with generous suitors. In 1928 she was maimed in an automobile crash, lost her beauty and her lovers. To get money, she borrowed on the strength of a mythical special delivery letter, which never came but earned her the name of "Special Delivery Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...milling mobs, the Cathedral of Notre Dame (with close-ups of Gothic sculpture), some of the year's choicest bits of sadism (a flogging, a racking, an unsuccessful hanging), a pitched battle on the cathedral steps, and darkly witching Maureen O'Hara, last seen in a den of cut throats in Jamaica Inn, here seen in a den of cutthroats in medieval Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 8, 1940 | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...years I've set aside a section of my den for the display of trophies I've won because of my peculiar looks, but never a trophy for being "moon-faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...clock one afternoon last week a large crowd gathered on Berlin's Unter den Linden, in front of the U. S. S. R. Embassy, to watch big limousines pull up and discharge swankily dressed passengers. Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and 30 of his Foreign Office assistants, wearing the new Nazi diplomatic uniform, were among the first arrivals. The Finnish and Turkish diplomatic staffs arrived in top hats and cutaways, followed soon by similarly dressed Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian, U. S. envoys. Big German bankers, industrialists, Cinemactors Emil Jannings and Leni Riefenstahl trooped in. Editors and foreign correspondents presented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Are Humane | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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