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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still handsome at 45, tall, black-haired, brogueish, magnetic Rex Ingram prefers tequila to Scotch, smokes pipes and cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Romantic's Return | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Fiene embodies some of the controlled but outspoken realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the...

Author: By Jack Wllner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

It is hardly necessary to point out that very many observers would label this view naive to say the least. They would hear in the booming guns along the Saar merely the clash of rival imperialisms. And they would see in Mr. Chamberlain's devious line of march from appeasement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

In brief, the United States must fight if there is any chance of an Allied defeat. Under no circumstances must Hitler win. Mr. Greene perhaps envisages a Nazi-dictated peace which would reduce the Allies to vassal states, which would impose upon them the Fascist ideology, which would force the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Of course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREENE PASTURES | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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