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...Russian peasant is a stubborn lad, and all this made him extremely unhappy. His unhappiness may well have a withering effect on Russia's bumper wheat crop. For when Ivan is unhappy, as the Soviet Government learned during 1932, he sits and sulks and watches the grain go to the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Problematical Poods | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...small but sure-enough pipe of peace. Whatever the effect of this may be on the behavior of Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked for the role because he photographed well in the New York Daily News as a returning communicant from the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress last year. Martin is a veteran votary of tobacco. But off the set he refuses anything but Corona Coronas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...passed me near a town and when I walked through it I noticed him starting up again, this time he didn't pass me by, but stopped himself without me raising my hand. You see I was carrying a small bundle and on the outside I lad the latest issue (at the time) of your magazine. He told me after we were travel-ng along that anyone who read TIME was friend of his, he was also one of your many admirers. . . R. S. ROBERTSON Toronto, Can. Wily Bonefish Sirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Cornell Walt Sickles, the lad who set the Crimson down with five measley hits in the first tilt between the two teams, will be a tough nut to crack. And the Ithacans have started to hit behind him. Shortstop George Polzer leads the attack with a mark above 400, while Charley Bowen and Bill Mogk are close on his heels...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Stahlmen to Face Cornell at Ithaca Today | 5/24/1939 | See Source »

Star three is Albert Ammons, a former Chicago lad whose boogiewoogie playing with Meade Lux Lewis at the Cafe Society in New York has had every piano man in the country practising up on his left hand. For some of the finest piano jazz ever recorded, get the two Blue Note records, a private release, which has piano by Albert...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

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