Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surface, as the curtain rises, the Priestley puzzle-pieces are good companions. They are not when the final curtain rings down. The cast of this extremely talky but interesting tour de force includes Colin Keith-Johnston (the terrier-like Captain Stanhope of Journey's End) and caustic, statuesque Jean Dixon (Once In A Lifetime, June Moon...
Four men sat around a long conference table in a Manhattan publisher's office one day last week, registering varying degrees of pleasure. Large, dapper Publisher Richard Roy Smith beamed. Wide-eyed Critic George Jean Nathan puffed contentedly on a cigar. Ernest Boyd lolled crosslegged, grinning through his messianic beard. Hulking Theodore Dreiser looked less glum than usual. All had just learned that the first monthly issue of The American Spectator ("A Literary Newspaper") published by Mr. Smith and edited by the three writers (plus James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill) had sold out its entire edition...
...printed in 5 wide columns. It carries no illustrations, thus far no advertising, sells for 10?. Its purpose: "... to offer a medium for the truly valuable and adventurous in thought." Its criteria: ''clarity, vigor, humor . . . real knowledge and a decided point of view." The idea was George Jean Nathan's. From his long experience with monthly magazines, notably Smart Set and American Mercury, he had found "that it is impossible to get enough good copy each month to fill. . . . [The editor] is only too happy, indeed, if he can get even so many as two things that...
...posted an offer of one million francs ($40,000). for an envelope that held a message to U. S. citizens signed by George Washington and was the sole cargo of an experimental balloon flight on Jan. 9, 1793 from a Philadelphia prison courtyard to Woodbury, N. J. where Balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard delivered it to Woodbury's Mayor. The letter, of which the whereabouts are unknown, is called the "first letter ever sent by air mail...
...Married. Jean Lebrun, son of France's President Albert-Frangois Lebrun; and one Bernadette Marin, daughter of a retired army captain: quietly, in the town hall of Rambouillet (the French President's Rapidan). A witness: Premier Edouard Herriot...