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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...International Company of Sleeping Cars and of Great European Expresses). This firm, called Wagons-Lits for short, not only supplies individual dining and sleeping cars to European railways, much as Pullman does to U. S. railways, but also makes up entire trains (except the locomotives), and arranges with a score of governments to run them uninterruptedly across Europe and Asia. Longest (preWar) run under Wagons-Lits auspices was Paris-Berlin-Moscow-Irkutsk-Yladivostok. 7,800 miles. Bolsheviks stole all Wagons-Lits cars on which they could lay their hands, and still operate them. Germany operates more of her own sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Orient Express | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...Army clique began fulminating so many different plots to overthrow the "transitory Cabinet" that this week Tsar Boris called a score of Army bigwigs to the Palace. They were still defiant. Whereupon the Little Tsar summoned a detachment of military school cadets who herded the grizzled officers into confinement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Napoleons to Exile & Back | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...establish a sensible relation between the political preoccupations and the other concerns of its characters, to laugh at itself. Technically as adept as Chapayev, with an equally good performance by Boris Chirkov (last month made an "Honorary Artist of the Republic"), The Youth of Maxim also contains a musical score and sound arrangements contributed by U. S. S. R.'s brilliant young composer. Dmitri Shostakovich (Lady Macbeth of Mzensk). It begins a trilogy which will carry the biography of Maxim up to the present time. Best sound: "Varshayianka," sung by workers in jail to infuriate their guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 29, 1935 | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

Princeton's protest was apparently based on the sixth inning decision that catcher Reichel's wild attempt to catch Dick Maguire off first allowed the three Crimson runners to score, while the verdiot was rendered after Coach Fred Mitchell's definition of the ground rule to the officials, and the Tigers' two runs from the overthrow were disallowed. Princeton played the balance of the game under protest. The league officials will return their report within ten days, after the protest and Harvard's plea have been filed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Protest Decision Giving Harvard Team Baseball Game | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...sixth inning was started when Bilodeau doubled to left field, and scored on Owen's single to right. The bases were filled when Woodruff walked and Maguire singled, to score when Reichel's throw to first went out into right field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tigers Protest Decision Giving Harvard Team Baseball Game | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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