Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Frolicking happily by the shore of a Swiss lake, the Craig children, Penny (Deanna Durbin), Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Barbara Read), find their mother in tears over the news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From...
...anti-tobacco movement and the infrequency with which reputable physicians inveigh against tobacco. But people who do smoke too much are doubly unfortunate because their "pleasant vice" is so extremely hard to break. Writing in the current Annals of Internal Medicine, Dr. John Lanahan Dorsey of Johns Hopkins has news for weak-willed oversmokers...
...matter how bad the bill. Though in Grand Rapids, Mich, a woman was arrested for sponsoring beano games last year (TIME, Nov. 25, 1935), elsewhere officials have winked at the game if it violated antigambling statutes. The Catholic Bishop of Albany, N. Y., Most Reverend Edmund F. Gibbons, made news last week by becoming the first prelate to forbid such gambling on Catholic property. Wrote he of the game, in which anything from $1 up may be won by filling five numbered squares in a row with beans as the numbers are drawn and called by the banker: "The game...
...Jones found in a run-down district, merged it with North Woodward Christian Church, raised money in 1928 for a fine new building for the united congregation. In Detroit, Dr. Jones is a civic pillar and the official Chaplain of famed Nancy Brown's column in the News. Dr. Jones possesses a roomful of Lincolniana and knows the calls of practically all U. S. birds. Dr. Jones's recipe for a good preacher: "He should get religion like a Methodist; experience it like a Baptist; be sure of it like a Disciple; stick to it like a Lutheran...
...than 30,000 years old, looked like the oldest human relic ever found in the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq.). Few weeks ago from the cave at Chou-Kou-Tien, whence the famed pair of skulls belonging to Pekin Man first came to light in 1929, came news that two more skulls had been found. Reported from China last week was a fifth skull of Pekin Man, with the nose and eye sockets better preserved than in any of the others...