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...primary (April 2), then through Illinois. Into both these primaries stubborn old Jack Garner has stuck his red neck. Janizariat belief is that, after these two elections, the Vice President will be politically as dead as a doornail. The Kelly-Nash-Horner machine in Illinois has been told to pile up an overwhelming majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: New Era | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...left wing, scored the goal which clinched the Tiger victory, with only 55 seconds remaining in the game. The Crimson's lone tally came in the opening minutes of the last stanza when Captain Bill Coleman took Skip Ervin's pass and slipped it into the net after a pile up around the Princeton goal, trying the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON SEXTET BOWN TO TIGER ATTACK, 2-1 | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

Life for Miss Claudius began every day at 5 a. m. She slept on a pile of the thousands of old newspapers, some dating back to 1900, which were stacked in the rooms and halls of her house, crammed into broken windows. Bottles, broken furniture, boxes, cartons also filled her house. The roof was peeling, the paint had long since flaked from the outside walls. Hedges grew tree-high around the yard. Rigged behind one of the doors was a bundle of newspapers, a rope and a hammer, so arranged that if anyone entered without Miss Claudius' permission (never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: I Like My Life | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Critics - among 1,000 people who passed down the receiving line at the Virginia Museum to look at the show, chat with each other and pile up punch glasses at the base of the statues-agreed that artistically the choice of Argentina to start the Pan-American series of exhibitions had been sound. Like U. S. art, that of the Argentine has a strong flavor of the melting pot, has lately been turning from European influences to its native resources. Many of the 236 paintings, prints, water colors and pieces of sculpture in the show were inspired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Argentine Art | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...other feature, "Three Sons," explains how some Windy City lad made a pile of money in The Bazaar. For this is the story of The Store and how it grew. If you want the dope on how to found a dynasty and how, once it is founded, to end it, this is the picture for you. J. Edward Bromberg is the only oasis in an otherwise barren cinema. The final scene of the father--Edward Ellis--dying with the blinking Bazaar sign in the background was more than a body could bear. We hobbled from the theatre in tears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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