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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open to question. Whether, having made the first non-stop solo flight from the U. S. to Europe in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh thereby justified the U. S. press in considering that his private life was public property is open to question also. Last week, the sad and puzzling problem of the No. 1 U. S. hero's relation to the No. 1 U. S. institution of hero-worship was raised once more when, completely unheralded and completely uncommunicative, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh returned from England, where they have lived since 1935, to visit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Lindbergh Landing | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

...Cradle Will Rock (music and words by Marc Blitzstein; presented by the Mercury Theatre). To John Houseman and Orson Welles, the producers of Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Marc Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock is an old problem. They tried to produce it in Manhattan last June for the WPA theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 13, 1937 | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

With the news that a citizen of Salt Lake, Utah, has decided it would be a good thing to settle the flood and drought problem through the production of artificial glaciers, the issue of what to do with snow again comes squarely before the American public, from the loftiest to the lowliest, the wisest to the dullest citizen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JINGLE BELLS | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Briefly the snow problem consists of an inability to get rid of the snow in the winter and an inability to find any in the spring. Now begins the time of clogged streets and downed telephone wires. All too soon come the days of flood followed by those of drought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JINGLE BELLS | 12/13/1937 | See Source »

Syphilis and gonorrhea present no problem to vigilant Hygiene Department officials, says Mother Advocate in its latest issue, out today, after exhaustive research proved that "sex is the least important" of Undergraduate mal-adjustments here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mother Advocate Discovers Syphilis No Cause for Worry for Hygiene Heads | 12/11/1937 | See Source »

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