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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a remarkably sturdy constitution could have withstood the series of painful breakdowns which sapped the strength of Pope Pius XI for almost three years. His early love for mountain climbing and his simple manner of living kept him in excellent health until he was well into his seventies. But for the last three years the sick man of Europe has kept devout Catholics, as well as reporters and radio commentators, awake many a night as he spectacularly battled death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medici Papae | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played stories of a typical recent week in the Anderson papers: annual Chamber of Commerce meeting, opening of two new hosiery mills, the tale of a city girl who came to town, scratched her neck with a razor for unrequited love, was arrested as a drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grass Roots Press | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Must Love Someone (by Jack Kirkland & Leyla Georgie; produced by Jack Kirkland) tells of six fly young ladies who, at the turn of the century, made up a Florodora Sextet.* In Act I, along with six swains, they render Tell Me, Pretty Maiden quite fetchingly; then for the rest of the show they gallivant with various admirers whose attentions go considerably beyond candy, books and flowers. One Pretty Maiden goes in for blackmail; another enjoys watching her aged suitor tumble down a flight of steps; a third is kept by a pal of the Mayor's; a fourth gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 20, 1939 | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

Beethoven, the Vagabond reflected, was a typical Harvard man. He had all the earmarks. In the first place, he was almost constantly in love. Arrogant and tactless, without any graces of appearance or manner, he nevertheless completely vanquished the Venetian belles. He spent fortunes on fashionable clothes, he took dancing lessons, he was often at court-in short, he got around; and one friend once said of him that he could make a conquest "very difficult if not impossible for an Adonis." But when he proposed to the beautiful Magdalena Willmann, she laughed and termed him ugly and half crazy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

...championship in the 135-pound class. About this time Lehigh was becoming the foremost eastern wrestling representative, a position which it has maintained ever since. Harvard was admitted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League, at the time a rather exclusive organization, due to the efforts of Bill Bingham, whose love of the sport has been an important factor in the rise of Harvard wrestling...

Author: By Joseph P. Lyford, | Title: WHAT'S HIS NUMBER ? | 2/16/1939 | See Source »

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