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It was the Government Department that got the cruellest blow when the axe fell on ten assistant professors last June. For a long time it limped along painfully, its staff pared to the bone, trying to handle one of the biggest enrollments in the College. Lately it has been getting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW BLOOD TEST | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

In the spirited contest for most popular U. S. radio performer, Comedian Jack Benny has since October 1937 run a close second to a perverse but inanimate object -the saucy ventriloquist's dummy known as Charlie McCarthy. At the 1939 finish, Charlie (Chase and Sanborn Hour) had an estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: King Benny | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Coach Wes Fesler announced a big basketball cut last night which pared the squad down to 15 men. A few more men will be added after the conclusion of the football season and a final out may be necessary in a couple of weeks.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Squad Numbers Only 15 After Fesler's Cut | 11/24/1939 | See Source »

Into this sorry mess stepped Michigan's senile, godly, sometimes cunning Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson. To Lansing he summoned Chrysler's President K. T. Keller and Vice President Herman Weckler, the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers' President Roland Jay Thomas, Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Golden Luren | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Last week Director Michael Chekhov, nephew of famed Playwright Anton Chekhov, offered a dramatization of Dostoevsky's The Possessed. Probably the worst of all attempts to put Dostoevsky on the stage, it reduced the vast forest of his imagination to dead, sapless stumps. One grotesque, blighted scene followed another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Bad Play in Manhattan | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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