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Of recent years, having wrenched the J. from his name, Atkinson-though thoughtful as ever about good plays-has become a Katzenjammer Kid about bad ones. This season he has pulled leg after leg of flop after flop. Of Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Minus the J. | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Probably no group of writers or politicians has less respect for each other than the Katzenjammer Kids of the radical movement. Their polemical outbursts are juicy with accusations and counteraccusations. Almost invariably they get home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Leftist Libel | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Some of the characters who people these sequences include a sardonic anthropologist named Dr. Thumb, who involves himself joyfully on Trolley's side; Newshawk Kilgallon, Trolley's satirical, hard-drinking crony, a World War hero and onetime child prodigy singer who has been trying to commit suicide since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Denver Don Quixote | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

Her autobiography, published by an orthodox house and energetically advertised, should be the most popular of her books. It tells her story from Radcliffe to the present. It is bristling with intimate anecdotes of those artistic figures. Pleasso, Matisse, Apollinaire, Marie Laurencin, who have most captured the hearts and imaginations...

Author: By R. G. O., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/11/1933 | See Source »

Last week Sheik Monte Bourjaily announced that Cartoonist Dirks would no longer draw "The Captain & the Kids," acquired when U. F. S. bought the late World's syndicate contracts. Instead, beginning May 1, a young understudy, Bernard Dibble, creator of "Danny" in the Graphic, would carry on. Rudolph Dirks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hangover | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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