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Dates: during 1930-1939
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AMERICANS READING TIME JUNE 19 WONDER IF TWA'S FACE ISN'T RED? TIME'S ARTICLE MUCH NEEDED SLAP AT AMERICAN JOURNALISM, WHICH PERHAPS WILL LEARN THAT HEROES ARE OFTEN HUMANS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 3, 1939 | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...bought intellectual distinction for the University. Its best known product: Psychologist Joseph Banks Rhine's experiments on ESP ("extra-sensory perception"-clairvoyance and telepathy). Of his faith in these, President Few says: "I'm backin' him, ain't I?" Dr. Few believes Duke needs much more money, wishes it were as rich as Harvard. Old Dr. Few just now is irked by New Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner, who characterized activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Duke's Design | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

Friends & Enemies. In light-hearted pre-War Vienna, which boasted of its sexual freedom, Freud was jeered at and shunned. Prudish physicians complained that he made too much of sex, that he destroyed beautiful illusions (such as the innocence of childhood), that he invaded his patients' privacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intellectual Provocateur | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...much comfort for H. H. was the failure of both industries to get back to where they were in March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATE OF BUSINESS: H. H. Treatment | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...character of Branwell and her technique in presenting Branwell's biography is to change the fictional names in autobiographical passages to the real names, juggle tenses, link wholesale quotations in chronological order. Because one Brontë is as inconceivable as one Dionne, she has found herself as much enmeshed in the sisters' patterns as in Branwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brother, Sisters | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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