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...times" says the introduction to "Wilson." In putting together this valuable study of the life of Woodrow Wilson, Darryl Zanuck has succeeded in capturing the tremendous vitality of American life at the beginning of the century, while at the same time infusing a good deal of the homespun simplicity that America regards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/5/1945 | See Source »

Thus in 1937 wrote Robert Ralph Young, a financial wizard given to homespun free verse. He had worked hard gathering unto himself the mammoth railroad empire created by Cleveland's famed, buccaneering Van Sweringen brothers, and it seemed about to slip from his hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emperor's Dream | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

Khaddar and Kirpan. First, on a lawn overlooking the valley, there was the vice regal reception. The Congress delegation, headed by President Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, wore white caps, homespun khaddar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Simla Conference | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coldstream of History | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Report on the Russians; TIME, March 19) popped down on bookstands than angry denunciations began popping down on the author. From the fury of the criticism, White might have been Joseph Goebbels instead of a veteran newsman, with his late father William Allen White's talent for making homespun phrases-and irritating snap judgments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tempest in a Samovar | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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