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...Wyck Mason-Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last century, he need only compare Deerslayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars. Out of Depression Atlas emerged as No. 1 U. S. investment trust (peak assets: $121,336,779 in 1933) and Odlum emerged as the U. S.'s newest tycoon, the only one extant who had done his pyramiding when other pyramids were crumbling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Odlum Makes a Deal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...wrote The Coming Struggle for Latin America, and Cordell Hull survived Round One at the Lima Conference. Last year Reporter John T. Whitaker added to the literature of moderate alarm with Americas to the South, and Katherine Carr contributed her excellent South American Primer (TIME. Aug. 14) to the extant sources of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rediscovered Continent | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Probably the greatest Prime Minister in our history was Sir Wilfrid Laurier, than whom no finer example of British-French-Canadianism is extant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 27, 1939 | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...wave one leg feebly in the air and pray that the invasion won't come again. If there is one thing that can arouse good musicians from their usual torpor, it is the mention of Mr. Clinton's name, the reason being that he is the most unadulterated copyist extant. He was put where he is because a high executive of a record company had him under personal contract and spared no pains to see that his investment was protected. In regard to his copying, examine "Fon To You" and you will find "Don't Be That...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 3/24/1939 | See Source »

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