Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hauptmann in Wax Sirs: Adding to TIME'S pithy paragraph pertaining to posthumous phonographic poesies [TIME, Sept. 30] may I suggest for a bellylaugh, Jack Kapp's Decca platter, End of Public Enemy No. 1, reverse side being Bruno Hauptmann's Fate, wherein the singer refers to the Teuton in the past tense. He fails to reveal however, whether Mr. H. becomes a celestial or takes one of Hermes' personally conducted tours. Me, think Buck Nation should have consulted Bruno's wishes in the matter...
...converse with fellow diplomats at Rome last week was piquant to those who had known him only at Geneva. No man could say that "the deal" would be consummated, for all human endeavor is fallible, and with the heaviest naval concentration since Jutland jamming the Mediterranean this week, the fate of Europe was clearly at the mercy of an incident...
When Paramount went bankrupt in 1933, a minor consequence appeared to be the fate of three St. Louis cinemansions-the Ambassador, Missouri and New Grand Central-which Paramount and Warner Brothers had jointly operated. Warner took over the theatres and for a time ran them alone. When the theatres failed to make money, mortgages were foreclosed. Warner put in a bid which was rejected. The theatres went to a local company which leased operating rights to the theatrical firm of Fanchon & Marco...
...best suited for a dam site. With just such a dam in mind, England has made a recent treaty with Ethiopia stating that neither government could alter the water supply without the consent of the other. As no treaty exists between England and Italy, it is evident that the fate of the Nile valley would rest entirely with the Italians should they subdue the Ethiopian government...
...most deplorable misconception of the average young instructor is that Fate has destined him to achieve the illustrious rank of "Harvard Institution". As if the Copelands and Kittredges did not amply fill their roles of arch-indiosyncrasists in University life, the humble section man aspires, very unwisely, to work up through the intermediate grade of Temperamental Professor and supply the lack of eccentricity among the Gods of Learning...