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...Great Expectations rests principally on the cast. Most memorable contributions to a gallery of 19th Century human oddities are made by Henry Hull, as monkey-faced Magwitch; Florence Reed, as monstrous old Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt as cold-hearted Estella. Good shot: Magwitch eating cold porkpie in a graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Great Expectations | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Bobby Jones won both (in addition to both Open Championships) in 1930. Last week, the golfer who played Goldman in the final had a chance to do the same thing. Huge, round-faced William Lawson Little learned his golf on a course laid out on the site of a graveyard near Tientsin where his Army-Officer Father was stationed. He beat an unemployed carpenter in the final of the British Amateur at Prestwick last spring (TIME, June 4). Last week in Brookline Golfer Little had, as usual, been driving the ball 250 to 260 yd. Among other able opponents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Again, Little | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...Trinity could spend several million dollars a year and still remain the richest church in the U. S., possibly in the world. Its productive real estate holdings in lower Manhattan are assessed this year at $27,879,400; its mortgages and securities at $3,866,239. Its site and graveyard, where clerks and stenographers from the Street lunch above the dust of Robert Fulton and Alexander Hamilton, and its seven parish chapels scattered over the city are valued at $31,902,000.* Total assets: $63,647,639. Its gross income last year was $1,798,528, of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trinity's Idea | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...supernova. If they are right the old concept of the end of the world?life freezing to death under a cooling sun? must give way to the prospect of life scorched to death by a sun having its final fling before joining the stellar ghosts in the cosmic graveyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Star Suicide | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...match and the honor of having won the British Amateur without losing a single hole in the final round-14 up and 13 to play, the most one-sided score on record. Lawson Little learned to play golf on links built on the site of a Chinese graveyard, when his army-officer father was stationed at Tientsin. A club rule said: "Ball may be lifted and dropped from open coffin without penalty." By the time Lawson Little entered Stanford, where he majors in economics and belongs to Chi Phi fraternity, his golf game was steadily in the 70. A good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Prestwick | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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