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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Europe's face remade in 1938, U. S. textbook maps today are out of date. Pupils learn geography from newspapers, magazines, such reviews as American Observer and Scholastic, which 600,000 youngsters read each week. They cluster for their daily lessons around school bulletin boards, across which march a procession of new maps and dispatches from war fronts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Times & Texts | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Dartmouth (Class of 1926), Harvard (M.A.), University of Chicago, where he taught Shakespeare until he joined the Times in 1929. He was a flying fanatic until one day in 1932, when he tried to do an Immelmann turn from the ground, cracked up with two broken ankles and his face halfway through the dashboard. During his long hospital convalescence, he kept the broken instrument board at the foot of his bed, as a memento mori...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Borden for Ruppel | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...role the famed singer of blues and hotcha shames the play's bogus tear-jerking with her own deep and honest intensity. More moving than anything in the story are the fugitive looks of love and suffering that every so often cross Ethel Waters' plain, brown, human face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...will have 110 candles, however, on its figurative birthday cake. Reason: every Wednesday night Gang Busters accompanies its blood-&-thunder re-enactments of real-life man hunts with alarms for important fugitives from justice, and listeners have tipped off the cops to 110 wanted men, including Kidnappers Percy ("Angel Face") Geary and Thomas H. Robinson Jr., Karpis gang Trigger Man Larry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Nemesis by Air | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face, so he had wanted to lie low for a few days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Juan, Cont'd | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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