Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actually a new low in its star's uneven career did not constitute news. What did constitute news about the picture-which distressingly exhibits Miss Davies as a stenographer who hides her good looks under a dark wig and glasses in order to reform a young novelist (Robert Montgomery) who has fallen in love with her -was that it may be the last occasion for such painfully insincere reviewing. Reported disappointed with box-office receipts of the pictures Cinemactress Davies has made since Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved to their studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, Warner...
...recently caused an anthropological stir by discovering in the Aleutian Islands the skull of an Aleut which had a capacity of 2,005 cc. (TIME, Oct. 12). This was the largest on record in the Western Hemisphere, the largest anywhere except for one huge, famed Russian head: that of Novelist Ivan Turgenev which was measured at 2,030 cc. Last week a fragmentary skull found in Virginia and assembled at the Smithsonian outstripped even Turgenev's by an amazing margin, took indisputable first rank as the biggest head ever to pass under the scrutiny of science...
...sickroom at Temple Hospital in Philadelphia. Most spectacular conjunction was the LL.D. bestowed on Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt by John Marshall College of Law in Jersey City, N. J. Greatest celebrity beat was scored by little Elmira College (Elmira, N. Y.), which gave its Litt.D.'s to Novelist Carl Carmer (Stars Fell on Alabama), Actress Helen Hayes and (by proxy) Actress Katharine Cornell...
...Declared Novelist Kathleen Norris, arriving from Europe where she had reported George VI's coronation for the North American Newspaper Alliance: ''I predict that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor will break up in less than two years. I base my bet on the letters, some 300 of them a day, that I have been receiving from women everywhere during the last eight years. . . . What Mrs. Simpson and the Duke did is not the sort of thing we would stand for in the White House. No American President has ever put to the people the question...
From outside, the Congress was attacked by Novelist James Farrell in The Saturday Review of Literature. He called attention to all the books the delegates had not written...