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...Akron disaster was a classic example of thick-headedness and incompetency. There is only one capable airship commander in this country, and that is Rosendahl. He's a good man, but they've got him out at sea on board a battleship, while a lot of inexperienced pups fool around with the Macon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Billy Mitchell Hits Air Force as Inadequate and Sees Return of Air-Mail to Private Companies | 4/18/1934 | See Source »

...Author. In spite of his name and his southern-European style of writing, Henry Baerlein was born in the very Brit ish spot of Manchester, on April Fool's Day 59 years ago. But Manchester could not hold him long. World-wide traveler, his particular provinces are the Near East. Mexico, Spain, the republics of Central Europe. He speaks many languages fluently, some like a native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Metador | 4/16/1934 | See Source »

...Sure,' said Savoy, 'but wasn't she the fool to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Critics on Criticism | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...Every time business gets its head above water the Government whacks it, and down it goes again. Perhaps after a while business will not be fool enough to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Critics on Criticism | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

Medieval Mummery THE FOOL OF VENUS-George Cronyn -Covici, Friede ($3). Of the ten long years that went to the making of The Fool of Venus, eight were spent on research and the other two were wasted. In spite of all the pomp and panoply of a conscientiously historical novel, this lengthy (438 pp.) tale of a 12th Century troubadour rarely makes sense as a story about human beings. By dint of piling on medieval facts and such medieval words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medieval Mummery | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

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