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Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists to Forest Hills | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Nineteen-nineteen brings a great gathering of the Warings at The Grove. Dicky and Brad are back from the War. Linda, now 21, rejects Thornton, her War fiancé, then weakens and accepts him. Brad reluctantly decides to give up medicine for business. Dicky involves himself with Ellen, a neurotic. Best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winning Warings | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

Thurber struck up a friendship with a quarter-miler named Elliott Nugent, who persuaded him to get a haircut and stop wearing funny clothes. Thurber drifted into newspaper work, was hired from the New York Evening Post by Editor Ross in 1927. A poor judge of men, Ross tried to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The New Yorker | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

At the beginning of this picture, Nick Charles (William Powell) says to one of his favorite bartenders: "A dry martini should be shaken to waltz time." This conceit is the most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

From these two great and lovable men springs our essential trouble. Between them they divided America in such a way that the honest labor of man could never be fused with his inner spirit, and until such fusion comes we must await the years of our own majority. Nor is...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 6/4/1934 | See Source »

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