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...first twelve minutes of the race, neither gained. Then the breeze began to freshen, Ranger picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPOR T: Off Newport | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Other Biblical characters soon to go on the air are Solomon, Ruth, Esther, David and Saul. According to Director Wylie, Columbia aims to "freshen and reanimate" the stories, employing ablest writers to do so. Margaret Sangster did Job, Lewis Beach (The Goose Hangs High) Joseph. Thyra Samter Winslow and Ernest Howard Culbertson are among those selected to write future scripts. A Manhattan rabbi, priest and minister review the acts, copies of which Columbia will send in any quantity to churches throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God on the Air | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Both the pictures at the Paramount and Fenway this week take place in the North Woods, the big outdoors, but this does not freshen them greatly. "Fifty Roads to Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Silent Barriers", featuring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer, are the pictures; one is sophisticated adventure, the other raw meat. The first is strongly under the influence of "It Happened One Night", which was so good picture that its baleful shadow is still hanging over Hollywood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...acres which once threatened to be the jumping-off place for its dissolution. But Mr. Gordon is going to clean up and preserve the island. He is going to cut the brushwood out of the depression which is all that is left of Harman Blennerhassett's home, freshen up the well which is the last material relic of this half-forgotten episode in the days of the nation's growing pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIRGINIA: To the Fair Isle | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...College of Surgeons, onetime president of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists and Abdominal Surgeons. He weights his book with many a quaint or appalling notion once held about childbirth, admits that posterity may find present-day ideas equally ridiculous. For laywomen & men who want to round out and freshen up their knowledge now, he offers a sound, thoroughgoing outline of modern facts and opinions about birth. Some of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Facts of Birth | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

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