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...former Congresswoman from Illinois and daughter of Mark Hanna, filed a civil suit against some 400 defendants to clear up old claims and establish positive title to the famed Trinchera Ranch in southern Colorado, which she bought last February for a reported $500,000. Some of the defendants: Scout Kit Carson (once stationed near the Trinchera as commandant), Presidents James Buchanan, Chester Alan Arthur, William McKinley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 26, 1938 | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...their bombs will land. No more easy, therefore, was continuance of sessions at such universities as Nanking and Ginling, in the heart of bomb-riddled Nanking. Nanking University's compound began to be rocked with dugouts and shell holes. Five of the 13 colleges were obliged to move kit & boodle inland, at great expense. Yet all 13 completed the year's work. Moreover, they carried on two extraordinary extracurricular activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chinese Colleges | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

...cabin like oldtime fire-horse harness, pulled a lever that unpinned the door hinges, kicked their way to freedom. Floating down with them, attached to each 'chute, would have been a compact parcel containing 30 days' rations, water, a hunting knife, fishing tackle, a first-aid kit and snakebite remedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sure Thing | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

...meets-girl is the cinema situation in which Victor McLaglen fights with an adversary less cumbersome but much cleverer than himself. While Dobbie (McLaglen), a hulking, happy-go-lucky prospector, endures prolonged humiliation at the hands of an up & coming gambling-house proprietor (Brian Donlevy), his wife Kit (Gracie Fields) supports him and her moppet nephew by pursuing her profession of music-hall artiste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...middle-aged actress, but still extremely attractive; superficial and selfish, but capable of deep love, continues to play lotto after her son, sensitive, talented and aimless, has killed himself, she accepting the doctor's assurance that the sound of the shot came from an explosion in his medicine kit. The same mother and son, in traditional Russian fashion curse each other for their respective faults and then fall weeping into each other's arms. A sea gull killed by the young man, is made to stand for the girl he loves, a young, unwise person seduced and made miserable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/24/1938 | See Source »

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