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...last murmur before giving in, the National Association of Broadcasters moved to have the regulations threshed out in public hearings. Meantime no short-waver signed up any advertising accounts, and one even so far endangered international good will as to broadcast to Germany in German how No. i U. S. Nazi, Bundfiihrer Fritz Kuhn, was arrested in Pennsylvania after an indictment charging grand larceny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FCC Rules the Waves | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...been watching the score. Like most bowlers, he was content to let his string of strikes run itself out before finding out where he stood. But watchful eyes among the 300 afternoon spectators in Cleveland's vast Lake Side Auditorium spotted what was going on, and the murmur and commotion aroused McGeorge to what he had worked up to. He had eleven strikes. One more meant a perfect game. In all the 39 years of the A.B.C. competition, only five bowlers had rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Without a Miss | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

Said a Hitler Maid, recently promoted to undercover agent, as she dialed a German news broadcast: "You may think that our radio is the voice of our. people, but it is not. The voice of Naziism is trumpeted, but the true voice of Germany is a murmur. . . . We are listening now to news that is never published. What we learn we are passing from one to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murmurous Germany | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...dewy dawn of a destructive century, 19-year-old Pablo Picasso was remarkable for his impressionability, his facility his profound self-confidence. Standing one day in admiration before a painting by Toulouse-Lautrec, whose bold draftsmanship and garish atmosphere he was then busily imitating, he was heard to murmur, "All the same, I paint better than he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art's Acrobat | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...Printed with the understanding that the CRIMSON does not endorse, tolerate, or condone any and all sedition, murmur, or grudge herewith published...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contributions | 2/9/1939 | See Source »

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