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In the stories, all traces of the magazine's former old-rose-and-lace preciousness seem to have disappeared, but as is natural enough, some of it lingers on in the poetry. Old idols cannot be so easily and quickly uncrowned. Obscurity, still one of them, reigns supreme in Phemister...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: ON THE SHELF | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

To a lot of people, going to a Symphony concert is a plain and simple evil, and not even a necessary one--like sending birthday presents to great-aunts. But more than a few Harvard jitter-bugs and Totem Pole devotees have echoed the words of one Freshman who, on...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/18/1941 | See Source »

Remembering a costly lesson learned by the U.S. in the years 1919-33, New York's straight-grained Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia last week wrote his Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine: "Owing to the increased taxes on liquor there might be created a temptation to bootleg. Therefore I wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Temptation to Bootleg | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Main part of the narrative is the classical setup for all war fiction from worst to best: a soldier, a girl, the soldier's friend. The girl, Prudence, is upper-class, erving in the W.A.A.F. Clive, on leave after Dunkirk, is an intelligent, self-educated Yorkshireman of the working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis Dodged | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

To elect anyone besides Camacho required a miracle many times more awesome than the triumph of Wendell Willkie at Philadelphia, not only because of the Cárdenas machine but because of deep-grained habits of chicanery which come from the last four centuries of Mexico's history.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: An Age of Trickery | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

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