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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lunch a Dunster and sate next who wishes I had brought the owl back with me as he is an expert in such things and would stuff him even for the Tower but I do not like stuffed things about, even wise owls. Thence all afternoon to snoop about Emerson and say many fine things to the secretary but she, very foxy, does not tell me how well my examinations I did. So I to drown my sorrow with "Desire" at the flickers: So much drivel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Assistant Secretary of War (1913-16) and as Charles A. Lindbergh's attorney, Colonel Breckinridge is a thin-lipped, sinewy, 49-year-old member of Kentucky's famed Breckinridge family. To keep fit for his legal and political jobs he flies his own airplane, keeps up the expert fencing which in 1928 got him elected captain of the U. S. Olympic fencing team. Not seriously seeking the Presidency, Colonel Breckinridge last week wished only to rally anti-New Deal sentiment, register a "protest" vote within the party against its present leader. Result: Colonel Breckinridge, 17,701 votes; Franklin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Primaries & Protests | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner, who proved himself an expert opera conductor in Philadelphia last year, is now at London's Covent Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Reiner for Bodanzky | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...that it matters, for after all the lives were lost, but just as a question of justice. TIME, April 6, under Transport, "Worst & First," claims that the courtesies of the Mexican pilot caused the terrible accident. According to official reports, it was the U. S. technical expert who was handling the plane when the accident happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...under 45 - she would play anything. She was the only good-looking girl whom Paramount found willing to stick her face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile as fun until she was hurt in an accident in Phoenix, Ariz. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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