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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next printing of Pocket Books was 25,000 copies of each title. With these in his pack, Prospector de Graff will plunge boldly into the great U. S. literary desert. Behind him he leaves a big question mark: Can he equal the success of Penguin Books and Tauchnitz Editions in Europe (combined sales of 25,000,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...event of a daylight air raid on Paris, employes of the Louvre department store will stream across the Rue de Rivoli, not into shelter but into the Louvre Museum. Their job: to help the museum staff remove, pack and convey to safety the world's vastest collection of art. Obviously unable to do it unaided are the museum's guards, who number 405 and have 900 rooms to cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Watteau Snipped | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

After that their doctors will pack George and Elizabeth off to the country for a well-won rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Here Come the British | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Until German-American Bundesfiihrer Fritz Kuhn proved last February that he could mass 20,000 followers at one time in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, he and his strutting Bundsters were to most New Yorkers a pack of Dutch comics. But his Garden show gave the shivers to libertarians and plain democrats, made him quarry worth hunting even though his own pack was well content with him. Last week the hounds, set at his heels by New York City's libertarian, Nazi-baiting Mayor LaGuardia, ran down Nazi Kuhn. Charged with plucking $14,548 of Bund funds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Common Fox? | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...second time the Harvard shell has triumphed over the Elis. The 150's were badly jumped at the start by both the Cornell and Yale boats, with the Red leading the pack of seven shells which stuck together well throughout the Henley distance. It was soon apparent, however, that the Crimson and Blue duel would dominate the race...

Author: By William W. Tyng, | Title: Crimson Oarsmen Sink Navy With Withering Final Sprint | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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