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This cluttered journal proceeds with all the ingenious disorder of its subject's existence. Had he been a woman, the title could have read: "Anatole France with her hair down"- bodily hair, mental and spiritual. He asks the secretary, in a study crammed with sacred art-works and in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anatole at Ease* | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

Depressing. When Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard retired from the ring (TIME, Jan. 26) in order to sooth the declining years of his mother, the New York Boxing Commission proclaimed a tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

(3 of 3) less illuminating. Radio, fiction and cinema pages were at parity. Macfadden's "health page" was unique but nothing to worry about, so they waited to see if Macfadden's disconnected, irrelevant "human interest" stories, in behalf of "clean living" and "the whole truth," would offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Teeth, Fingernails | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

As the monkey only cost $35, the owners hurried to the Cambridge police station to protest against the illegal rent. A policeman accompanied the plaintiffs to the boarding house and after examining the evidence fixed the damages at $10. Reluctantly she announced that they could phone later and she would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kinney, Scratching and Screaching, Returns to Apthorp Sick of Linoleum Rugs and East Cambridge Landlady | 10/9/1923 | See Source »

It is very reassuring, after reading the increasingly pessimistic daily news reports, to hear from a man who knows the situation and who has the authority to speak that the -loss of Russia and the weakening of Italy as effective fighting forces are not causing the British and French to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IAN HAY'S OPTIMISM. | 11/12/1917 | See Source »

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