Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long have I admired TIME'S choice of faces to adorn its covers, but pray tell what is Clark Gable's image doing on the Aug. 31 issue? He may have been the most newsworthy person in the world last week, but from the size of the article and the small mention made of him in it I judge that TIME could have found someone more interesting to greet its thousands of readers on Friday morning...
...Reds & Pinks are beginning to fear Worker Doriot as they never feared La Rocque. Last week the Communists and Socialists decided in Reims to send their Popular Front gangs bursting into the homes of Mayor Doriot's followers to give them a thrashing lesson. The Whites, led in person by Doriot who had gone to Reims on a speaking tour, gave battle in the streets with clubs and paving stones, and 50 Frenchmen were knocked out before order was restored by police...
...Spain-the sole regime in Western Europe now to contain even a single Communist member of the Cabinet. This did not change but did regularize existing authority in Madrid. At latest dispatches the Capital had by no means fallen, although Generalissimo Franco was leading his main army in person against it from the south and was advancing toward Toledo...
...Francisco. When she was 13, Mr. Jacobs gave his daughter an old tennis racquet, taught her how to use it. The day she won a set from him, she entered a public parks tournament. From then until last week, her career has been noteworthy mainly because the most important person in it was someone other than herself...
...Many a person living along the New York Central's right-of-way between New York and Chicago received a surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...