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...teach them to stay up. One morning a scary youngster freezes the controls, then while Brad is righting the plane, gracefully bails out. Brad later finds him, somewhat battered, dangling from a tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone at the controls pilots Brad's plane and the two injured men out of the canyon, pancakes safely, though not before part of his landing gear falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 13, 1939 | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Philbrook was formerly Donor Phillips' million-dollar Italianate mansion. Its first exhibition featured borrowed paintings. But Tulsans put on a $50,000 drive to buy art for themselves, and by the opening lad raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philophile | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...kept subordinate. And yet, the theme of a children's music school struggling to get along, though it sounds impossible, provides a moderately interesting plot. It also affords the chance to show off some truly remarkable child musicians and singers, of a breed quite distinct from Shirley Temple. A lad with a strikingly handsome face, Gene Reynolds, turns in one of the best juvenile performances to be seen of late. Joel McCrea and Andrea Leeds are in evidence too, but their duties are light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

Along came the Duke of Wellington. "Sam, Sam," he said, "pick up 'e musket. Come on, lad, just to please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Not Very Furious | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Into Lhasa, bleak Forbidden City of windswept Tibet, last week a swaying caravan brought home Tibet's "living god." This 14th Dalai Lama, sovereign pontiff of Tibet, a bright, intelligent lad of five named Tanchu, had been discovered in western China (TIME, Aug. 21). Instead of taking him direct to Lhasa, the caravan went some hundreds of miles out of the way to Chungking, China's capital, where an attendant held the button-eyed god aloft before the populace. Thence representatives of the Chinese Government accompanied the caravan to Lhasa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tanchu in Lhasa | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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