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No city is more nervous, but no European capital is today gayer or more frivolous. With no blackouts, no curfews, no ration cards to worry about, Bucharest's 900,000 sophisticated, easygoing, sensuous citizens are at last earning the title which the city long ago assumed but never quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Playboy into Statesman | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

In super-stolid North Germany, people's nerves seemed to be standing the blackout strain of bumps and boredom fairly well. A. Hitler, an Austrian by birth who spent his youth in Vienna, cheered up the former Austrian capital by putting it back on a basis of bright lights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Honk, Honk, Honk | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Unfulfilled ambition of the late, superserious Sir Edward Grey was to write a leader for the London Times Literary Supplement on the works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Patterned Patter | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

His "Ameddican"-born wife having consistently put her foot in her mouth* (TIME, May 22), the moose-tall British Ambassador to the U. S. last week decided to take matters in his own large hands At the suggestion of easygoing, democratic bir Willmott Lewis, correspondent of the London Times, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: His Majesty's Press Agent | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Near the end of the semifinal round occurred an incident characteristic of tournament bridge, which is played with fierce attention to technicalities like a small boys' baseball game. In a nip-&-tuck match, A. Mitchell Barnes of the Vanderbilt team, playing a five-heart doubled contract, led a heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It Makes No Difference | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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