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In 1921 this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Back to Nature | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

When the stones were taken up, nothing was discovered except that Spenser's monument rested on somebody else's bones. Authorities hastily covered the graves, announced firmly that there would be no more digging in Poets' Corner.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Poet | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

In Manhattan last week a great courtroom drama reached a sudden denouement. Prosecutor Thomas Edmund Dewey having shown to his own satisfaction that Tammany Leader Jimmy Hines was the political fixer for Harlem's numbers racket, had rested the State's case. The defense had begun to put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Cropper | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

When the plane taxied to the O. J. Whitney hangar at Floyd Bennett Field, a ladder was carried to the cabin door, but no one emerged. The doorhandle wiggled, police tugged from outside, but the door stayed shut. Said a bystander: "Now they'll have to go back to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Secret Flight | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

In the 139 years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Sunken Treasure | 8/15/1938 | See Source »

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