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...illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch Holt, who makes a good living smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured by a poetic Northern hunter who ties up his boat at Grass Margin for the night. When she becomes pregnant the hunter wants to marry her. Sister is being forced into a shotgun wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Delta Doings | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

Long. Since then the closest approach to the earthy, colorful antics and harangues of a Roosevelt-hating Democrat with which Louisiana's Senator used to pack the galleries and make national headlines have been the juvenilities of West Virginia's Rush D. Holt. Next week-one day before the anniversary of Long's death-Georgians will have a chance to supply the nation with a Senate successor who comes considerably closer to matching the talents and temperament of the late Kingfish. To oust Senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr., 38, from his comfortable seat in the Democratic primary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Gene & Junior | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...contract, had to have it approved by a court. For Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. young Actor Cooper will next month make a series of recorded programs with such of his older Hollywood colleagues as Fred & Paula Stone, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Hoot Gibson, Jack Holt, Elissa Landi. For working in Jackie's program, Cinemactress Anne Shirley has already been promised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Free Show | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Keynoter of the three-day shindig was young Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia, apostate New Dealer, who delivered a 90-min. harangue in favor of all Father Coughlin's"16 points" of Social Justice, net of which is that cheap money is the key to a rich life for all. Orator Holt evoked boos for Representative John J. O'Connor (who last spring threatened to kick Father Coughlin from the Capitol to the White House), Herbert Hoover, the du Ponts, Carter Glass, WPA, the Federal Reserve System. He won cheers for Thomas Jefferson. Father Coughlin. Social Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: 8,152-to-1 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

When Methodism's Senior Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, himself a Deauw deserter: Publisher Kenneth DePauw Craven ("Casey") Hogate of the Wall Street Journal and onetime (1928-29) Secretary of the Interior Roy Owen West met early this month in Manhattan to name Dr. Oxnam's successor, many a DePauw alumnus hoped they would see fit to break precedent, choose a layman. Instead they retired in silence. Last week the committee reassembled in Indianapolis, announced the selection of another Methodist minister. He was Dr. Clyde Everett Wildman, Professor of Old Testament history and religion at Boston University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wildman to DePauw | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

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