Word: oct
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you for telling us (TIME, Oct. 30) what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
...should, however, brush up on what has been happening throughout the long years of his absence before bursting forth with any such smug, sectionalistic, and effete example of ignorance as his "minor league," "hillbilly," and "subsidized players" effort in TIME, Oct. 30. True, circumstances have forced him to dig up a few bouquets to toss at this year's team and "the Major," but his apparent reluctance to do so and his "scoop" discovery of Tennessee as a major league team have forced this constant reader of TIME to take up his pen and write his first letter...
...German Army began talking to the Poles with bombs and bullets. The talk about a long war was tempered by the announcement that unexplained "favorable developments in the food situation" made it possible to increase somewhat the tiny food rations on which the Fatherland subsists (TIME, Oct. 9). Germans were promised that during December, "in honor of the holiday season," they will each be able to buy an extra pound of meat, three-quarters of a pound of rice, one-half pound of butter, six eggs and three ounces of chocolate...
This week, while celebrating his 50th birthday, the greatest collaborator of his time can look back on a career in the theatre that would be spectacular in a man of 100. Kaufman's current collaboration with Moss Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Oct. 30), is one of the biggest smash hits of the last ten years. Kaufman's unequaled record: at least one show on Broadway every year since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take...
...individual but as the chosen chronicler of a group. His book is thus an official history, clearly and decently told but subject to the narrowness and reticence of its kind, supplementing and to be supplemented by such a vivid personal history as Alvah Bessie's (TIME, Oct...