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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: Stomachic Victory | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Ten years ago promoters of professional football were unable to fill a good-sized stadium, even with Annie Oakleys. Last Sunday 62,000 football fans jampacked Manhattan's Polo Grounds for a championship* game between the New York Giants and the Washington Redskins. The crowd was small compared to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Giants v. Redskins | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Despite its grim situations, Key Largo is not realistic drama but a philosophical sweatbox giving the third degree to a question that has agitated every mind from Shakespeare's to the corner grocer's: Is life a mere vicious muddle, or are there things worth dying for? Unfortunately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

After a while his money ran low, his friends were out when he went to call on them, his law business went to pot. At that point Richard Knight pulled himself together and got down to work again. He acquired a house on Long Island. His friends forgot his recent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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