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Down from the Canadian Rockies across the central U. S. last week swept steady frigid winds that drove temperatures far below normal, made moisture condense like breath on a cold windshield. Results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Torrents & Twisters | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...most highly publicized hunk of ice in the world last week was a floe about the size of three tennis courts. It was drifting in the frigid, ice-choked sea some 100 miles east of Greenland. On that floe were four Soviet scientists and a dog named Jolly. They were in great danger, for the ice cake, once big enough to hold a sizable town, was getting rapidly smaller. Once ten feet thick, it was getting thinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Four Men & a Dog | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Leslie Banks is manly, earnest, and warm as the advocate of democracy. Theodore Newton is as grim, as honest, and as frigid as the role of the communist demands. Claudia Morgan is attractive and uneasy, and whether the uneasiness is in the actress or the character, it all contributes to the proper dramatic effect. A prominent background stands behind the picture of these fighters in the form of Alexander Woolcott, who as a cynical marriage broker contributes to the play what humor it has. Since the ill-fated girl is one of his proteges, she relapses at the end into...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

...decided to ask the Duke & Duchess to lunch. It seemed certain that Mrs. Roosevelt would be away on a lecture tour. At latest reports the President seemed to be waiting for U. S. opinion to crystallize, the higher officials of the British Embassy in Washington were icicles of frigid reserve, and cables from the Duke and Duchess had declined with thanks the Gridiron dinner and Women's Press Club invitations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: B-Units & Windsors | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...sexually inhibited divorcee; Gay, a liberal professor at Columbia University. Considering each of the Colemans as a main stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire department-store owner whose business contributes a dozen more stories. The beautiful, shanty Irish gold digger who feeds Greg's story is not so much a tributary as a cloudburst. Corinne's story runs small but fairly clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rice Pudding | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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