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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approximate a solution of the liquor problem is not recognized and steps immediately taken, an outburst of public indignation will surely result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARLEYCORN ON A BENDER | 10/5/1938 | See Source »

Since the death last year of Dexter Fellows, circus pressagent extraordinary and perennial, the literature of the circus has seemed as subdued as mourning. With Big Show, the first novel of a circus-loving staff member of The New Yorker, the circus goes to town in bigger & better literary spangles than ever. A three-ring romance presenting a tender love story, an engaging dog story and authentic circus life, Big Show shares with Dexter Fellows' ballyhoo the distinction of being frequently livelier than the circus itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...story contains many a hero, but its main hero is Bob Boulton, a lazy, circus-struck, upState New York kid who teaches his collie, Skipper, a repertory of backyard tricks, rises from a frowsy dog-&-pony show to headline billing in Madison Square Garden in The Greatest Show on Earth. With him goes pretty Ann, a blonde snake charmer whom he won when she was abandoned by an athletic, womanizing clown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

When Bob and his Canine Prodigy are the stars of a successful traveling circus, he makes a bad mistake, accepts a contract for the Big Show which includes his doubling in a high-wire leap and Ann joining a snake act. Thereafter the story centres on the Big Show at Madison Square Garden, spotlights the thinly disguised big-time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three-Ring Tale | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...game of foot-ball is not to be given up for good and all; the college must bestir itself at once, and show its desire to have the sport continue to be a prominent feature in Harvard athletics...The only thing to be done is to organize class elevens...From these teams a fairly strong 'varsity eleven may be picked to play the Canadian teams, and thus the foot-ball spirit may be kept alive until the cloud of faculty disapproval, which now rests above the sport, shall be removed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Plucky Harvard Men of 1885 Saved Football | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

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