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...more than five pictures, requires producers to show their films to exhibitors before selling, Hollywood now not only must decentralize but has to take a great deal more pains with its productions. No longer, thought some, will it be possible for one man to rule any studio's roost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Order | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...None of them was equipped to fight anything except submarines or armed merchantmen of their own size and speed. If a German pocket battleship-the Admiral S cheer or the Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire convoy could be blasted in their huddle, and, if necessary, run down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Formidable Dangers | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...ocean freighter S.S. Executor. While 60 guests ogled the boat, Am Ex bigwigs huddled with Baltimore's Mayor Jackson, trying to solve another problem: a U. S. landing place for their would-be airline. Because New York's North Beach Airport (where Pan Am's Clippers roost) is already overcrowded, Am Ex cannot base there. Mayor Jackson stayed aboard three hours, left after assuring Am Exers they could start Baltimore-Lisbon flights whenever ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pan Am v. Am Ex | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...ogle-eyed jinx that persists in shadowing Harvard football captains finally came home to roost at Soldiers Field yesterday when it was learned that Joe Gardella who sparked the team throughout 60 minutes of the rain-soaked content Saturday would be lost to the team for the Penn struggle at Philadelphia this week...

Author: By David B. Stearns, | Title: Injury Benches Gardella For Penn Game | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

Last week Bertrand Russell (Earl Russell in England) found a roost. His U. S. odyssey had taken him to University of California at Los Angeles, where he taught last year, to Harvard, where he lectures this autumn, and to the College of the City of New York, where his appointment raised a storm. When a Tammany judge last spring ruled that his "salacious attitude toward sex" disqualified him to teach at C. C. N. Y. (TIME, April 8), U. S. men of learning deplored the New World's inhospitality to one of the world's original minds. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Russell's Roost | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

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