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...Living???1948 (Sun. 4:35 p.m., NBC) inquires into divorce, desertion and involuntary separation, and their effects on U.S. home life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Apr. 26, 1948 | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...tried in vain to get his work accepted under a pseudonym); to make a parachute jump ("and I don't care what the result is either"). His enlistment expires on March 11, 1935. Then he may either re-enlist or settle in his Somerset cottage and write for a living???£4 a week, in his opinion; "far too much trouble to work for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scholar-Warrior | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

...late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living???perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tolstoi Theory | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...There comes a day when, surrounded by his female relatives, including his spinster aunts, querulous mother, prolific wife and lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living???or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Dec. 20, 1926 | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

...Donahey is a peach. She's had twelve children?ten are living???and she's listened to Vic's banging since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A NEW BOOK: Gubernatorial Spoon River* | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

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