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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairs are usually remembered for 1) their effect on contemporary architecture, 2) their naughtiest exhibits, 3) their deficits. Unlikely to have either a notable influence on architecture (TIME, Jan. 2) or to admit a deficit, San Francisco's fair is still in the competition with its naughty-naughties. Handicappers' current No. 1 choice is Sally Rand's troupe of cowgirls, wearing boots but no saddles on a "Dnude* Ranch" behind plate glass (see cut p. 16). Instead of "Midway," the fair's fun section is called "Gayway," which, although it means red-light district down South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

With nobody in either camp unreservedly for war, but plenty of war talk ringing through the land, this week two slim but articulate volumes by best-selling public thinkers hit the bookstalls. Each is released by the same publisher, Harcourt, Brace & Co., and the company is due to lose no money by the fact that each speaks the will of an opposing camp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Who's for War? | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week part of the treasure crossed the French frontier in the ragged pockets and worn suitcases of officers and men of the rear-guard brigade commanded by General Enrique Lister. But the great and incalculably valuable bulk of it was either hidden beneath rocks and trees in the Spanish Pyrenees-where it will be searched for until Kingdom Come-or had been blown to Kingdom Come in the courtyard of Figueras Castle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Scollay Square where she does two dances; one a fan dance and the other an orchid-dance. She said the idea for the orchids came to her when she was in Chicago one night; she dreamt that she was walking down an avenue completely nude and that fountains on either side sprayed up orchids which fell upon her body, clothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faith Bacon, Fan and Orchid Dancer, Would Like To Perform "Apres-Midi d'un Faune" at Harvard | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

With the college ice season more than half over, it is pretty certain that Clark Hodder's first Varsity puck team will not carry off the laurels in either the international or the Quadrangular League. But no sane Crimson hockey rooter really expected the squad to show any fireworks this year. Faced with the problem of a comparatively inexperienced team with practically no veteran material and with only one really outstanding star, Hodder has had a difficult situation in his first year at the new job, and the team's record of four wins, four losses, and one deadlock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

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