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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like many another treaty, this one can be stretched. It was stretched when many signatories put up their own buildings in defiance of the Bureau's designation of the New York World's Fair as a Category 2 fair (meaning it must build pavilions for foreign exhibitors who are supposed to build them themselves only at Category 1 fairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Figures v. Dreams | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Information Please won this special dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Platters for the Pacific | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Experimenting on its own hook last week, KECA inaugurated a program called Encore Theatre, presenting the same show three times running each week to accommodate first-night absentees and those who might like to hear a program a second or third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Platters for the Pacific | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Tell me, pretty maiden, are there any more at home like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Aug. 21, 1939 | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

There she squirmed, squinted at her nurses, swallowed milk through an eyedropper. Her heart beat regularly, and when she cried it bounced up & down on her chest like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Open Heart | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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