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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gypsy Smith was born in England, 79 years ago, in a tent under a hornbeam tree. Until he was 18, he never slept in a house. A peddler of clothespins which his father, a Christianized gypsy, carved of hornbeam wood, Rodney Smith taught himself to read from a Bible and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIGION: For Pagans | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Over Catholic Spain Pius XII was not so happy last week. He had heard that Generalissimo Francisco Franco wished to expel, as hostile to his regime, Tarragona's Francisco Cardinal Vidal y Barraquer, who during the Spanish War was as near to being neutral as any ranking prelate (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Proud Vaunt | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Life with Father (adapted from Clarence Day's work by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Oscar Serlin). No easy job was it to transfer to the stage the late Clarence Day's saga of his own family during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Excellently made (with his own money, according to Producer Korda, though later the British Government bought it), the picture maintained a mounting tension as thrilling as its theme sound of droning airplane engines. But it also had a quiet humor. Sample: during the Kiel raid the navigator asked his pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

She left him in 1931 and, like Spain, began a new chapter of life. She rejoiced with the rest of the Spanish people in the somewhat piteous end of the King "with his evil-looking nose and famous bad breath." First woman to be divorced in Spain, she promptly married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spanish Histories | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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