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...cricket to do anything like that, but we envision the picture with considerable pride. Baseball has never attained much popularity in Britain. Frontal attacks such as Harvard made successfully on her sister island empire have failed in the realm of George V. It may be that our premier baseballer is taking a page from the tactics of radical labor agitators and is "burrowing from within...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BABE | 2/20/1935 | See Source »

...last week no reputable airline had ever blamed a crash on lightning. Lacking an authentic case of lightning destroying an airplane and its occupants in flight, most aeronautic experts considered such a thing outside the realm of j possibility. According to Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, Mechanical Engineering department head at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Federal Aviation Commission (see above), there have been several cases of balloons being struck by lightning and a few cases of minor damage to heavier-than-air craft. But, says that onetime naval commander, "the probability of serious effect of lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: First Strike | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

Centuries of parliamentary tradition have left His Majesty's realm with almost no political plug-uglies, millions of loyal subjects overwhelmingly convinced that violence has no place in politics. Last week svelte, high-waisted Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, rich Fascist, decided to reform his Black Shirt movement into two sections. Members of the first or so-called "elite section" must be firm believers in violence as an instrument of party policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fine Flame | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...blonde as herself. Pretty Helen Jepson is an expert fisherwoman and her radio contracts have already made her rich. But pretty Helen Jepson had little opportunity to prove herself more than a light, agreeable singer last week in the Metropolitan's latest and most dismal venture into the realm of native opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dismal Doings | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...earth, at least caused him to desert the seraphim and the kingdom of talking brutes. His first real commercial success, One More Spring, followed the fortunes of a group of indigent outcasts who sought shelter in a street cleaner's tool shed in Central Park. Still in the realm of fantasy, this rueful little fable cut close enough to the essence of lean-year reality to please those who detest animals that behave like humans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nation Into Exile | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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