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Publisher Funk devoted a section of Your Life to each of what he considered life's major problems-Health, Love, Fortune, Charm, Children, Conversation-added a section on Words because he is a lexicographer at heart, tossed in a digest of an inspirational book for good measure. Printing short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Funk's Amoeba | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

The hero of Boris appears in only three of the long, episodic music drama's nine scenes,* must work hard to dominate its diffuse action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Boris | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

> Rhazes, famed Arabian clinician of the 9th Century, used successful if violent psychology in treating neurotic patients. He once placed a rich man, who was crippled by rheumatism, in a hot bath. Then, leaving a saddled horse at the front door, he grasped a sharp knife, brandished it in his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgeon's Tale | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight Negley Farson did at last crack up-but only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Transgressor's Collapse | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

MURDER TO HOUNDS-Edward Acheson-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Murder in a neurotic fox-hunting Virginia family, combining an innocuous love story with the most engaging Englishman in recent crime fiction.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: February Mysteries | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

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