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Dates: during 1930-1939
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NBC's one-man dramatic workshop is a 30-year-old, hornrimmed, half-pint scrivener named Arch Oboler, who in the last five years has written some 200 radio plays, cast many of them, directed some of them standing on a table so the actors could see him. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

This sort of front, plus a prodigious capacity for turning out ideas and listenable plays, make Arch Oboler NBC's No. 1 Wonder Boy. His start toward such a ranking goes back to a bundle of estimable playlets he turned out in 1934-35 for the Grand Hotel program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Genius's Hour | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

> Snobs who brag of their ancestry betray their ignorance of genetics. Each person receives 24 chromosomes from each parent, an average of twelve chromosomes from his grandparents, six from his greatgrandparents, only one or two from his great-great-great-grandparents. "If you claimed descent from Miles Standish, the odds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: When Gene Meets Gene | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Three months ago the Communist New Masses gleefully revealed that one Walter G. Krivitzky, exiled Russian general who was publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, was really one Shmelka Ginsberg (TIME, May 22). In April General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ginsberg's Revenge | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

Kept in the dark while negotiations were going on were some 150 News-Telegram employes, all but one of whom at week's end were jobless. Most disgusted of the 149 was Reporter Dave Dryden. Under him the Scripps Spokane Press had folded equally suddenly last spring. Cracked he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Scripps Tease | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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