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...found eleven lucky slum children quartered on a big estate with yew trees, sunken lawns, wrought-iron gates and a flock of servants to wait on them. When he arrived, the children were clinging to their delighted host's coattails, calling him "Uncle." They reported that they had roast beef and Yorkshire pudding for dinner, were allowed to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Alarums and Excursions (cont'd) | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Umbrella | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...fall of any government. His eyebrows upped with vague uneasiness, he hands a match to Mussolini, who is lighting a bomb under his chair. Perched beside Colonel Blimp on a raging volcano, he spurns Litvinoff's assistance in putting out the fire: "Sorry," he says, as the flames roast his rear, "but we don't want to burn our fingers." Cartoonist Low is almost as good in his caricatures of General Franco, but his drawings of Franco are in his old mood, give the General something of the air of a small boy unaware of the ruination around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Low on Chamberlain | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...such friends of the livestock and meat industry as Chairman William Bishop Warner of the National Association of Manufacturers, Hotelman Ralph Hitz, Railroader John Jeremiah Pelley, Editor Glenn Frank, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick. Convening from all over the nation, the 457 spent 180 minutes eating sirloin beef roast and hearing how the I. A. M. P. was girding up its sirloins to battle against underconsumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Low Meat | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...playwriting. Three of his plays are currently on the London stage. Last week one of them,*another attempt to dramatize that old riddle, time, failed to impress Manhattan audiences either as drama or as metaphysics. Time and the Conways was like a heavy slab of Yorkshire pudding with no roast beef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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