Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Englishman I am obviously pleased to see on the front of your recent issue [May 15] that very excellent and natural picture of King George VI, but when I turn to the editorial under the heading Great Britain .and find on p. 25 such words ". . . for which the British public, almost forgetting that Edward VIII ever happened ..." I am singularly disgusted...
...anything like a full-sized show (Hotel St. Regis' gay, fast-moving ice frolic is the best brief show) is the lustrous Rainbow Room with its dazzling night view from the 6sth floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building. Suave, refined, pleasantly conventional, the show headlines Musicomedy-Find-of-The-Year Mary Martin, who sings My Heart Belongs to Daddy in Leave...
Died. Dr. Gatewood, 51, fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of the American Medical Association; of angina pectoris; in Highland Park, Ill. His parents never gave him a first name, left him to choose his own. Because he could not find one to suit him, he died first-nameless...
...Corp., which "last year netted $156,047, is looking forward to a better showing this year with things booming in the flying business. Of its stockholders, General Motors is the largest, holds 23.8% of its shares. What Ben Bendix's holdings amount to, the three plaintiffs hope to find out. Most of his friends, who are used to seeing him find a way out of difficulties, still doubted that Bendix would have to go through bankruptcy...
Nazis of lesser faith find it a long wait. Dr. Hellmuth Langenbucher, Director in Chief of Literature, in Nazi Book News of April 1939 grumbled: "a plethora of translations," "a flood of historical novels, more than 100 in 1938, many of them 1) bad, 2) unnecessary, 3) irrelevant, 4) mediocre, 5) 'more or less average." He found too "an extraordinary number of books" in which non-German personalities were stressed, Roman Generals, Russian composers, French painters. Other shortcomings : "No new peasant novels, soldier novels, glorification-of-the-Führer novels, sport novels, strength-through-joy novels, no conquest...