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...published from last July to January, then folded up. Its best piece of fortune was that it had libel insurance when dimpled, kink-curly Shirley Temple sued it because of Critic Graham Greene's review of her Wee Willie Winkie. One of England's famed film critics, Oxonian Greene, a devout Catholic, had found Shirley's acting offensive, and offensively intimated that it appealed to man's baser sex instincts. "She wore trousers," he wrote, "with the mature suggestiveness of a Dietrich. . . . Her admirers-middle-aged men and clergymen-respond to her dubious coquetry . . . agile studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dimpled Depravity | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 21, 1938 | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

Grandparent of the labor press is the American Federation of Labor's pedagogical, 44-year-old American Federationist. Two months ago C. I. O. started a national weekly, the $1-a-year tabloid C. I. 0. News. Its editor is Oxonian Len De Caux, who was born in a New Zealand mining town 38 years ago, has worked on many leading U. S. labor papers. In spots where the C. I. O.-A. F. of L. breach has been most serious, C. I. 0. has also started its own local papers. Frank Palmer's People's Press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Proletarian Press | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality is no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beer & Skittles | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Physical Education. Oxford lacks a gymnasium. Oxonian Briant reproaches Oxford's chief benefactor, Lord Nuffield, * who gave $10,000,000 for a medical centre last year, for refusing to allocate $500,000 of it for a school of physical education "to minimize the number of those requiring the benefit of medical research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beer & Skittles | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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