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AN OLD HEART GOES A-JOURNEYING- Hans Fallada-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A whimsical folktale by the author of Little Man, What Now? relating how a lovable but erratic old professor rescues his angelic god-daughter from a villain of purest German dye.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Nov. 16, 1936 | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Wedding Present (Paramount). Cinema newspaper people, merely drunken sots a few years ago, have kept on topping each other's efforts in irresponsibility. Currently newshawks on the screen are, with few exceptions (see below), practically indistinguishable from run-of-the-mill lunatics. Wedding Present turns a couple of these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 26, 1936 | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

In Paris for months and years the franc has been repeatedly hammered by lack of confidence which has ebbed & flowed like an erratic financial tide. Each time panic was in the air, huge shipments of French gold have been piled aboard transatlantic steamers and trans-Channel planes. Such "flights from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fallacy or Victory? | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Pending tabulation of the results of his test, Dr. Clark described some of the effects which 54½ sleepless hours had on his students: "The faculty which suffers most ... is vision. The boys just couldn't see clearly, their notions of perspective were bad, their eye movements slow and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sleepless Hours | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

Braman Gibbs is a veteran centerfielder and .300 hitter. Flanking him in left stands Ben Prouty, a left handed swinger who hits through third base, a natural second man in any batting order. But in right field there is a void. Jim Sullivan can field the position but can't...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/18/1936 | See Source »

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