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Transporting 3,800 men from Morocco was the rebel command's high spot of the week. The column thus constituted was expected to make a new attack on Madrid from a new direction, the southwest. Most important boat used in the crossing was the Dato, a rebel gunboat. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Moors to Lusitania | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

We are now getting to the time of term when those people who have been buried under piles of work in the University Library and such haunts of learning for the past few weeks begin to tire and take to giving parties instead. One is now daily besieged with invitations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cambridge Letter | 3/5/1936 | See Source »

Though he remains an unorthodox agnostic, for all his optimistic idealism, Upton Sinclair thinks there is much good in Coueism and Christian Science, much that is unfathomable in spiritualism. From Coue he evolved his own cure for insomnia, an endlessly repeated: "God is here, and God is now. God is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Aesculapian God | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

German Author Robert Neumann, Zaharoff's latest biographer, admits that his book is far from being definitive. "To track down the facts," says he despairingly, "required the diligence not so much of a writer as of a detective." Zaharoff has not simply eluded publicity; he has barricaded his devious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fearsome Greek | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

Few of the faddists who go in for cork & chicken wire interiors and applaud any edifice devoid of decoration as an example of "modern" architecture realize that "modern" architecture is more than a half century old, has possibly already entered its senescence. So old is "modernism," in fact, that its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Master's Master | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

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