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Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Job for Jim | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Juan Belmonte, born in Seville, was the rickety son of an easygoing shopkeeper, whose shiftless ways landed his family in the poorhouse before his son's fame brought him better fortune. Juan was a puny child, and his legs were never any good, but when he and his cronies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Metador | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

But the chief interest of this easygoing spy picture, as to story, is the spy-work operating slowly, on thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

The Author. Unlike his chief rival. Ernest Hemingway, short, wiry, triangular-faced William Faulkner came late to popularity: not until The Sound and the Fury (his fifth book) was he on his way to become a literary household word. After two years at the University of Mississippi he enlisted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nigger in a Woodpile | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

In Washington, Republican Senator Wesley Livsey Jones, longtime Dry, was renominated over a Wet. For the Senate, Democrats picked Homer T. Bone whose brother Scott used to be Governor of Alaska. Nominee Bone, an ardent "public ownership" man, is viewed with alarm by conservatives who will support Senator Jones. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 73rd | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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