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Word: englander (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality to many thousands of viewers. It is a travesty of the facts to describe it as a dismal failure; and as a regular, if transatlantic, reader of TIME, I am jealous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

Sensitive operagoers, who like to look as well as listen, have long bewailed opera's dramatic knocks and squeaks. Now and then zealous directors, and intrepid groups of operatic artists, have decided to do something about them. Most prominent of these groups in recent seasons have been England's Glyndebourne Opera, and the Salzburg Opera Guild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stars v. Staging | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...trip, made a fortune from his patent on single-dial radio control and twenty-odd other radio inventions. Also a broadcaster, he is founder president of the World Wide Broadcasting Foundation which owns and operates non-profit shortwave Station WIXAL (Boston), dips into his own pocket to broadcast New England enlight enment to the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Quicker Fox | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week a similar group showed signs of sprouting in Ridgefield, Conn. There at his estate, "Dunrovin," wealthy Manhattan Attorney William Matheus Sullivan, long an admirer of England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stars v. Staging | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

TOCQUEVILLE AND BEAUMONT IN AMERICA-George Wilson Pierson-Oxford ($7.50). In 1835, during Jackson's second administration, Alexis de Tocqueville, an aristocratic radical, published his Of Democracy in America, won instant success in the U. S., France and England. At the age of 25, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, Tocqueville visited the U. S. He traveled from Green Bay, Wis. to New Orleans, taking notes, talking to bankers, doctors, governors, plain citizens, spent nine months gathering material for a book which required four years to write. In this 852-page study, Author Pierson has carefully retraced the journey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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