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...their sides. One of the few was Critic Walter Winchell. Winchell razzed his fellow critics, claimed that seven out of eight had also "laughed & laughed & laughed" but were ashamed to admit it in print next day. In the uproar which followed, three-ring Critic George Jean Nathan (Esquire, Newsweek, Scribner's) backed up Winchell, called Hellzapoppin "funnier than the Pulitzer Prize"; Critic John Anderson (N. Y. Journal & American} refused to budge an inch; wisecrackers in general suggested that Winchell must have bought in on the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Surer F | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

Joseph Chamberlain Furnas, author of a popularly gruesome tract on reckless driving ("-And Sudden Death"), has collected tips for the benefit of heavy smokers who wish to reform. In step with a recent upsurge of articles on smoking, in the current issue of Scribner's, Mr. Furnas offers several anti-smoking aids for what they are worth. Samples: 1) wash out the mouth with a weak solution of silver nitrate which "makes a smoke taste as if it had been cured in sour milk"; 2) chew candied ginger, gentian, or camomile; 3) to occupy the hands smoke a prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Advice to Smokers | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...normal" are Harvard graduates? Two years ago Mr. John Tunis managed to assemble data on his class ... and his article in Scribner's indicated that his class was "normal" only in its lack of distinction... The majority had failed to attain the goals they had established for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

...YEARLING - Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Best-Sellers | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...Yearling-Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings-Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: August Best-Sellers | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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