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...stopped thinking of C. I. Oligarch Lewis as a potential candidate; and few "influences" in U. S. political history have seemed so uninfluential. Of 40 Congressional candidates he blasted at in 1938, 39 were promptly elected; in Pennsylvania his support was politically fatal. Yet John Llewellyn Lewis, 60, shag mane, miner's pallor, pompous oratory and all, might be a forceful, effective, and sur prisingly conservative President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Odds and ends: (1) Get a load of the Elder-bloom Chorus, a hungry pack of female septuagenarians who truck, peck, and shag. (2) The name of the picture is "It All Came True." (3) It is very likely that the Metropolitan Theatre expected "The Grapes of Wrath" to run two weeks, and consequently was caught up a tree when it was good for only one. (4) Sheridan is gowned throughout like an expectant mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...From Astoria, L. I. : "The Trinity -God, Chotzinoff* and the NBC- we thank for making these concerts a reality." Hardly less impressive than the Maestro's fan mail is the mental shag into which he has thrown Manhattan critics. Toscaniniac Marcia Davenport: "The sun shines on - and so long as it does there is nothing on earth to be heard like the electrical clarity of the least voice in Toscanini 's orchestra, or the overwhelming majesty of its full song. How or why he obtains, in the pursuit of his ideal of perfection, the almost terrible beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...first draft which Goethe himself threw into the wastebasket, and made it the basis for most of the play. To exploit its elephantine slapstick and bawdry, the Everyman sold its own soul to Hellzapoppin: threw in wisecracks about F. D. R., created the impression of medieval monks doing the shag, started a Yale cheer, thought up lines like "Calling all angels." The result was a muddled farce which might well have been titled Getting Goethe's Garter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

They met in realization of a heroic vision a shag-haired 19th-Century revolutionary named Simon Bolivar lived for-the cooperation of the American countries as equal and sovereign states forever at peace. And from seat No. 19, where sat Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, came a proposal that the Americas guard their seas from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Sea Wall | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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