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...Hollywood went Michael O'Daniel, 19, son of Texas' Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, to make his fortune with his face. After a screen test he was offered a contract by Paramount, went home in high feather to get his pappy's consent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 14, 1939 | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

That each generation of undergraduates should exercise its prerogative to tar and feather the teaching staff -- typographically speaking--is a healthy thing, and the most recent essay in that direction, Mr. Bunde's philippic in the Progressive, manifests unusual insight not only into problems of pedagogy but into the larger question of a university's true function. Mr. Bunde, by and large, has done a good job, but the effectiveness of his criticism is blunted by over-indulgence in harsh and intemperate personalisms. There are ways of getting at the same end without resorting to personal abuse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 6/7/1939 | See Source »

...straighten out her sisters' love affairs. There is some superlative humor contributed by the absent minded Charles Winninger. There is some simple, tuneful music, and there isn't much sentimentality. Above all there is a refreshing sincerity about the whole thing. All in all it makes for ideal feather-weight entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

That President Conant should consent to address the Teachers' Union is a long feather in the caps of organized teachers. It is a fitting tribute to wise leadership and constructive policy on the part of the local branch of the American Federation of Teachers that the President of Harvard, proudest and oldest university in the land, should be the first to kiss timidly the brow of organized labor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS MAJESTY'S LOYAL OPPOSITION | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...revealing as either. Actor Muni has never been so impressive as he is in outfacing an armed camp of rebels; Actress Davis' mad scene is real cinematic excitement. And for Warners' star biographer, Director William Dieterle, Juárez is a bright new feather in an already well-decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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