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For the doubtful pleasure of seeing these two second-raters in last week's "grudge fight" at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, 18,222 hopeful customers paid $74,409.22. To their surprise they got their money's worth. Few heavyweight fights in recent years have brought forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Papa Baer Did | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

But Jack Morgan never forgot his ambition, was often observed prowling around yachts. Last month he had a singular stroke of luck. Living aboard his trim 58-ft. schooner yacht Aafje in San Pedro harbor was a lighthearted, thin-haired sportsman named Dwight L. Faulding. The owner of a Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Paradise Lost | 1/10/1938 | See Source »

Anything Goes (Paramount). Actually, a lot of people beside Cole Porter had a hand in this screen version of last year's No. 1 Broadway musicomedy, but somehow it all adds up to a Cole Porter lyric cast in celluloid, with involved metaphors and polysyllabic rhymes translated into comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Only Carter Glass had the strength of conviction to oppose the New Deal from the start. Harry Byrd, slower moving, stood by the President through the first year of the New Deal, doing such unpleasant political chores as reducing pensions of veterans, the salaries of Federal jobholders (many of whom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Dragons' Teeth | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

(RKO-Radio). Crossing its fingers behind a burlesqued title, this film is a clumsy attempt to satirize the cinema theme of regeneration. But Director Mark Sandrich and several up-&-coming young actors have an attractively lighthearted time with the heavyhanded script. As Aggie the regenerator Wynne Gibson is a slum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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