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...clock: Here's the peak crowd--four hundred through in just over an hour. Watch these solicitors along the back of Memorial and on the sidewalk. The way they yell and wave paper at everyone coming out they look just like--"Pardon me, chum; but is this place being picketed?" Well, you might think so; but John L. Lewis' son enrolled at Princeton today instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pandemonium Reigns in Memorial as 1941 Runs Gauntlet of Registration | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

...over; the courtroom speech in which he justifies his interference as a private citizen in L'Affaire Dreyfus. A Memorable also is Joseph Schildkraut's scene in which Dreyfus, white and dim after four years on Devil's Island, tries helplessly to comprehend his own pardon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prestige Picture | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...such sequences as playing a swing version of chopsticks, dressing as charwomen to break into the Y. W. C. A. To adept Song Pluggers Alice Faye and Tony Martin, Mack Gordon & Harry Revel have supplied a tiptop score of which the most singable numbers are the title song, Please Pardon Us, We're in Love, and Danger, Love at Work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 16, 1937 | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Irvin S. Cobb; in Detroit. This will be his ninth marriage. In 1933 Selby was paroled from San Quentin Penitentiary in the custody of Harry Bennett, personnel director of Ford Motors Co., after serving seven years for the murder of his mistress. This year he was given a full pardon, is now head of Ford's Garden Department, in charge of 15,000 employes' gardens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...sinners, Russians who transgressed against their State and were sent to the purgatory of digging immense canals under the lash of Ogpu overseers, last week were redeemed by the mercy of Joseph Stalin. Making one of his rare public appearances the Dictator took an inconspicuous seat while the official pardon of the 55,000 was read out. How many more thousands died in the Soviet purgatory and how many are busy redeeming themselves in it still with picks and shovels, the State did not say. Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under Ogpu Chief Genrikh Yagoda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Mercy | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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