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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized why he has been ranked at 10 goals (theoretically a perfect player) for 17 years-greatest feat in the annals of polo...
...genius of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), greatest of English painters, is one of those Himalayas of art whose height seems to increase with distance. Students of Romantic painting have found Turner's shadow longer than that of his French contemporaries (Gericault, Delacroix), longer than that of the Impressionists, whom he anticipated, and somewhere above such abstractionists as Redon, Kandinsky and Klee. John Ruskin spent most of his days interpreting Turner's art. But Turner's life has remained muddied by the fictions of his first biographer, a prolific hack named George Walter Thornbury...
...Here is a queer conflict between the occasion and the persons. The occasion, if you stop to think about it, is bristling with importance. . . . Here were meeting the heads of the two greatest democracies of the world. . . . That makes it something to worry about, to be sure nothing happens that can be misunderstood, overestimated, underestimated, distorted, omited. . . . The King and Queen, as persons, have overshadowed the occasion. . . . We had expected to like them, and we found we liked them more than we expected...
...became one of the greatest press-agents of his time, and his only client was himself. He published seven books of personal adventure, which have sold over a million copies. He was always turning up in odd places, doing odd things (and taking odd notes); newspapers printed thousands of columns of his exploits and plans for exploits. About nearly all of them there was an element of bravery and an element of bravura. He swam the Panama Canal (in installments), followed, on foot, the course of 1) Cortez' conquest of Mexico, 2) Balboa's march across Darien...
First of a series of Lincoln films in what Hollywood freely predicts will be Lincoln's greatest year, Young Mr. Lincoln was spotlighted during production by a restraining suit. Robert Emmet Sherwood and his partners in Playwrights Producing Co. Inc. filed the suit on the ground that there was more than coincidence in the similarity in name to Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Broadway hit to be filmed this summer with Raymond Massey). Darryl Zanuck parried that by producing a memo proving that Lincoln was in his thoughts as far back...