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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sirs: The other day while playing a round on Union County's (N. J.) famous Galloping Hill Golf Course with Mr. and Mrs. Sid Karbel, honeymooning East from Detroit, the lovely Mrs. Karbel calmly remarked that she had found an unbelievable blunder in TIME. In the pictorial section on the World Conference, she said TIME curiously labelled Mr. Morrison's picture with U. S. Senator Couzens' name. On investigation, I found to my amazement that she was right. Thus, "up the flue," went two concepts- TIME'S infallibility, and that the only women who read TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 10, 1933 | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...East River Savings Bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1933 | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even if compared with the fiction of Europe, takes its place as one of the dozen masterpieces of the world." With The Bridge of Dreams, the sixth volume, The Tale of Genji is complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genji Finished | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

...much-publicized electrical companies-General Electric and Westinghouse-supply most of the U. S. with lamp bulbs. In Europe that function is performed chiefly by potent Philips Glow-lampworks of Holland, which also boasts one of the finest physical research laboratories east of the Atlantic. Last week it appeared that all three companies were working independently on the same thing -a new sodium vapor bulb to be used primarily for street lighting. In Manhattan, 100-odd members, of the New York Electrical Society sat like jaundiced mummies in an auditorium suffused with the yellow sodium light while their president described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Light Bulbs | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...Londonderry, Ireland (630 mi.), to Reykjavik, Iceland (930 mi.), southwest to Cartwright, Labrador (1,500 mi.), to Shediac, N. B. (800 mi.), to Montreal (500 mi.), to Chicago (870 mi.). Following'a three-day fete at the World's Fair the squadron will hop east to Port Washington, N. Y. on Long Island Sound. Unlike the South Atlantic flight, on which General Balbo left his planes with the Brazilian Government in barter for coffee, he will lead this squadron home again through the sky. The route, undetermined, may lie via the Azores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Masses Like Infantry | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

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