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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cover figures are chosen for timeliness, but Subscriber Nesbitt errs if he supposes that each is supposed to be "The Man of the Hour." When Dr. Schuschnigg was chosen, TIME'S editors could not anticipate that he would become so much more timely that Adolf Hitler would find it necessary to enter Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...thought it strange, upon picking up TIME, to find the excellent painting of Davy Kerr staring at me. I thought to myself, "Where is Tiny?" I found Tiny [Thompson] and his ten years of great goal tending passed off in one sentence. I continued to read and I seemed to catch the idea that although the "well-seasoned" Bruins were leading by four points the Rangers were the better team. The "well-seasoned" Bruins (a team playing with six one or two-year major leaguers on its roster) have proved quite conclusively that they are the better team, by beating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...which the U. S. has a virtual monopoly, for commercial use in German Zeppelins. In Washington, Secretary Ickes, charged with exacting a German guarantee that the gas would be used only for peaceful purposes, let it be known that he was holding up shipment because he could find no way of drawing up a sufficiently watertight contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Refugee Committee | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Fredric March's "Buccaneer," now playing at the University, does not, like so many good pictures, herald a relapse in programs. On the contrary, "Gold Is Where You Find It," which will succeed "The Buccaneer" on Sunday, carries on as one of the finest pictures of its kind. Photographed entirely in technicolor, it is an epic of early California when the issue of the day was between gold and wheat. George Brent is excellent as the young mining engineer, and Olivia De Haviland is convincing enough as the passionate exponent of agriculture. The picture is well worth seeing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

Many music students are surprised that Purcell did not exert any considerable influence on his contemporaries and immediate successors. They are liable to draw the conclusion that succeeding generations relegated Purcell to the background because they could find no merit in his music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

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