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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robertson, but TIME does not know the addresses of its newsstand buyers. Though admission to the library is by card only, he or any other newsstand buyer of TIME can obtain a guest card by writing to TIME'S Chicago office (330 East 22d Street). He will find a few exhibits, no dancing girls, no glimpses of the World of Tomorrow-just a cool roomy place high above the city where he can 1) meet his friends, 2) read his hometown newspaper, 3) write his letters, 4) see television, 5) look at a March oj Time cinema...
...have a leg amputated. From that day on he gave up drinking and settled down. At 70 he is a conservative, steady, hard-working newspaperman who not only covers police but, under the name of Verdino, writes a daily column on fishing and hunting, and finds time to act as secretary of the St. Louis Newspaper Guild. He is going to write his memoirs, if he can ever find the time...
...penalty tariff on Japan's exports to the U.S. would hit the silk trade. Japan produces 75% of the world's raw silk, the U.S. consumes almost all of it, and neither can find an adequate market or source of supply elsewhere. U.S. women would suffer by paying more for silk stockings (half the world's silk sheathes their legs) and Japan would be threatened with permanent loss of part of her silk market to nylon, rayon and other synthetic U.S. yarns...
...sound a craftsman and too good a storyteller to point up obvious present-day implications, Author Mann lets his political chips fall where they may, lets his readers pick up whatever chips they prefer. Some readers will find that Henry's intriguing enemies, disgruntled Protestants, priests, Jesuits, Spaniards, resemble Nazis; others will be reminded of Communists. Fussed historians will throw up their hands at the free-&-easy handling of history. But few will deny that thoroughgoing German Heinrich Mann, in seasoning this lump of historical data into a right royal and highly spiced narrative, has produced...
Observer Egerton draws sly parallels between N'jiké and the British crown. "I was surprised to find how much a king remains a king. . . . Everybody knows that the King's powers have been curtailed, but that does not seem to make much difference. ... A King like N'jiké is a great stabilizing force in a society assailed on every hand by change ... in fact, takes the place of a religion to his people. He is not unaware of the fact. He does his part, and I think he feels his responsibilities...