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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrate its second birthday, Pins and Needles rigged up virtually a new revue. Only three of the original numbers remain. The new show cannot, from the fame of the old one, provide the same kind of exciting surprise. But on its merits it is a much better show. It is better put together, better paced, better performed. It has four or five downright bad numbers, but no longer any heavy and humorless ones, and it has ceased to be amateurish while remaining fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Cornell). Despite last week's loss (21-to-14), Ohio State finished in front in the Big Ten race (with five Conference victories, one defeat), nosed out Iowa's Iron Men who, unable to do more than tie Northwestern last week (7-to-7), wound up in second place with four victories, one defeat, one tie. Michigan and Northwestern, pre-season favorites, tied for fourth place with two losses each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Lawrence, Kans., Paul Christman & Co. showed Kansas what this year's Missouri team can do. They chalked up three touchdowns, a 20-to-0 victory and their first Big Six Conference championship. Nebraska, drubbing Oklahoma last week (13-to-7), finished second; Oklahoma third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Crisis | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Adopted. By Wallace Fitzgerald Beery, 50, boohooing, bellicose cinecomedian; a second daughter, Phyllis Anne, 7 months; in Beverly Hills, Calif. The first daughter (also adopted), Carol Ann, is 8, has cin-emacted (China Seas). Twice divorced, Papa Beery maintains a motherless home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Married. Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, 57, exiled former chief of the Italian Press & Propaganda Bureau, University of Chicago professor of Italian literature, author of Goliath: The March of Fascism (TIME, Sept. 27, 1937); and Elizabeth Veronika Mann, 21, youngest daughter of exiled German Author Thomas Mann; he for the second time, she for the first; in Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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