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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-year-old, baby-eyed Jefferson Smith (James Stewart) is head of the Boy Rangers, and a simpletonian Democrat. His fuzzy ideas make Governor Hopper (foxy-grandpopsical Guy Kibbee) and Political Boss Taylor (Edward Arnold) think Jeff the ideal Senator to cover up their graft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...running some 60% better than 1938's $1,000,000-plus, and on sales Buzz Hoover collects anywhere from 3% to 7%. Fall and winter business was piling up so that Buzz had to shut down his own auction school, which had 50 aspirants booked at $100 a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...lookut that pretty li'l heifer," Buzz urged grizzled buyers in his rough-hewn auction pit, "right offa the juicy meadas. Wottami bid, wottami bid for this pretty li'l heifer? Who'll start it 25, 25, 25. . . ." They bid up to $97 a head; Buzz got $57,000 for the lot; the folks headed home-men, women and children-tired but tickled after a great day at Showman Buzz Hoover's combination rodeo, barbecue, songfest and livestock sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Showman | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Underground but far from dormant is art in wartime London. Fortnight ago the Stafford Gallery, in a basement hardly a bomb's throw from St. James's Palace, opened the first important art show seen in London since the war began. Head of the Stafford Gallery is high-strung, capable Mrs. Ala Story. Keystone of her plan, a British Art Centre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hub's Hub's Hub | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...prodigious worker, Bill Cunningham does his column every day, for Sunday produces six columns on Saturday's football game. On Sunday too he writes a full-length feature story about any subject that comes into his head. An average day brings him 70 letters, and all of them get answered anywhere from a week to a couple of months later. In his 17 years with the Post he has never taken a vacation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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