Word: merlins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World Waits (by George F. Hummel; Frank Merlin, producer) is a depiction of life in the murky base cabin of the Hartley Antarctic expedition, toward the end of a two-year stay. It resembles Journey's End in having an all-male cast and a rigid youth (Philip Truex, son of Actor Ernest Truex) whose gibberings point up the venomous fortitude of the others. To forestall suspicion which might have occurred to auditors who knew that Correspondent Russell Owen of the Byrd Expedition had helped with the script and setting, the producers warned in the program that The World...
...years ago many a preacher and layman was pleased when Professors Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and John Merlin Powis Smith of the University of Chicago produced a briskly, unpedantically modernized "American Bible" (TIME. Nov. 30, 1931). Soon afterwards they began work on a condensation of this which Professor Goodspeed finished alone. Professor Smith dying in 1932. Last week The Short Bible was published as Book-of-the-Fall ($2) of the University of Chicago Press. Edited down to 545 pp. from the 2,000 pp. of a standard Bible, it is a book for reading, gaily bound in red cloth...
...fact that he taught himself tennis on London's public courts, became world's ping pong champion before he made a Davis Cup team. For England, at least, Perry is the No. 1 player of 1933. He beat McGrath. then Allison and Vines, then Cochet and Merlin in this year's Davis Cup matches. If he gets what he calls a "good win:" over Crawford, whom he has not played this year, it will be in the final at Forest Hills, because they will doubtless be in opposite halves of the draw. For the last five years...
Perry had blown up in the first set and that Merlin, playing with the calm arrogance of a Cochet, had won it at 6-4-that made the last match so exciting...
...crowd, nervously exhilarated, began not to cheer but to laugh at Perry's nervous blunders. Merlin, with a strange assurance, as though sure of bringing to pass one of those magical victories that have kept the Davis Cup in France so often before, held up his hand for silence. Working hard now and measuring every point, playing himself slowly back to his best game, Perry won the next two sets 8-6, 6-2. From 1-4 in the fourth Merlin brought the score up to 4-all, then 5-all. Perry, in danger now of slipping back into...