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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FIELDS FOR PRESIDENT-W. C. Fields - Dodd, Meod ($1.50). Cob-nosed W. C. Fields, with his marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM OF MISSOURI-Albert Christ-Janer-Dodd, Mead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Americans | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

GOLDEN ASHES-Freeman Wills Crofts-Dodd, Mead ($2). Inspector French bumbles through arson and murder in a complicated case stemming from the unsuccessful transmogrification of a plain Chicago citizen into a baronet in Surrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Future plans for the Center are largely dependent on funds provided for further instruction, research, and fellowships. Even though it seems unlikely that the School's enrollment will ever expand to the figure suggested by the Dodd group, new programs for integrating the training of government students are being worked out under the direction of Professor Carl J. Friedrich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Littauer School Serves as Center for Social Sciences | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

...Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: American Challenge | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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