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Having taken the wheel of a Phantom III, in which he was shortly to do 93 m.p.h., Lord Cottenham continued, "I shrugged myself more comfortably into position behind the wheel and cast about little searching glances under the scuttle, as one does when familiarizing oneself with the instrument layout and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Swank | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Except for a fleeting appearance in 1933 when she was threatened with kidnapping, slender, brown-eyed, olive-skinned Peggy Anne first stepped into the national spot-light when she went with 79-year-old Grandfather John Manuel Landon to the Cleveland Convention last month, kept breathless cameramen, radio announcers, feminine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Nominee's Daughter | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

Who wins the All-Star game is not particularly important. Some players, like Pitcher Carl Hubbell, who two years ago struck out five of the American League's best batsmen in succession, take the affair more seriously than others. Who plays in the All-Star games (rules call for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball: Midseason | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

To get under the conical shadow of the moon, astronomers are willing to travel thousands of miles with cumbersome equipment, spend months of laborious preparation because the fleeting seconds of totality enable them to check whether the solar system is running according to calculations; to observe the effect of masking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shadow Over Asia | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

The uncontrollable passion of young Ann (Jeanne Dante) is for nothing more dangerous than the poems and paintings of the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Daughter Catherine (Florence Williams) is more painfully enmeshed in a hopeless crush on a scrupulously disinterested portrait painter (Glenn Anders). Callow Martin, one of those slightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 10, 1936 | 2/10/1936 | See Source »

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