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Word: months (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last month Charles G. Hutter '38 gave a talk to a girls' school in Boston on a subject dealing with matrimony. His reward came last week in the form of a letter to "Dear Mr. Hutter." It was from a girl who said she was being initiated into a club and one of the things she had to do was get a letter from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...when Anthony Adverse was two years old its record was shattered by Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind. Also a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, with advance orders of 76,000, average daily sales of 3,700, Gone With The Wind had sold its first million copies inside a year, 1,400,000 in its first 18 months. On one day it sold 50,000 copies. Meanwhile, in Maryland, big, serious, six-foot Author Allen had given up his New York story, started work on a Civil War romance of his own. But where Margaret Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: North v. South | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dark Continent | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...spring book season got under way, Commander Ellsberg's Hell on Ice climbed into the best-seller class at Macy's, looked like a sure bet for nationwide lists next month, along with Hervey Allen's Action at Aqnila. Last month's published best-seller lists boiled down to these headliners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Best-Sellers | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Radio debates are scheduled for four consecutive Wednesday afternoons at 2:30 o'clock during the month of March over station WAAB. An Armistice Day argument with Yale on America's neutrality policy, and a stand against Melbourne on December 15 over a coast-to-cast MBS network has been planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATING COUNCIL ORGANIZES FORCES ON ATHLETIC BASIS | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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