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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Julie Harben was a pale, pretty, South African girl with a bad limp, a big sister and an overwhelming fear of the world. London doctors took care of the limp, a prim precise Londoner married her big sister, but Julie's fear of the world was harder to get rid of. In Julie, Francis Stuart traces the process in a straightforward book that is notable for its characterization of a 15-year-old girl, especially notable in view of the books by Author Stuart that have preceded it. He won critical acclaim with The Colored Dome and Pigeon Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Convict's Girl | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Julie's sister was too respectable to take a job as typist for an ambitious, vulgar, unscrupulous insurance assessor named Goldberg, so Julie took it herself. Before she was 16 she knew that Goldberg was an arsonist, and that she loved him. By the time she was 17 she had become, briefly and unpleasantly, his mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Convict's Girl | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

Before her first appearance in Jones Beach operetta, pretty June Havoc (real name: Evangeline June Hovick), sister of Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), announced: "My sister always was the beauty of the family. All of a sudden people tell me I'm beautiful. Maybe the pills I've been taking have done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 4, 1938 | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Most subdued parts of Freuchen's autobiography are those telling of his son Mequsaq (now 21, a hunter), first child by his well-beloved Eskimo wife who died in 1920. An Eskimo to the marrow, he could not, like his sister Pipaluk, now 19, adapt himself to life in Denmark. When, on one of his visits to Enehoje, Mequsaq set fire to the estate just to see it burn, Freuchen decided to send him to Greenland for good. But although Mequsaq could not learn white men's ways, neither could he learn to be happy away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Dane Tamed | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

Scientists are now generally agreed that the earth rotates on its axis, and the speed of rotation has been accurately measured. Nevertheless, Sister Mary's pendulum will be something more than a mere exhibition. Since a pendulum's rate of oscillation depends on the force of gravity at the point where it operates, it will keep a constant record of the force of gravity for the Chicago area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sister Mary's Pendulum | 6/27/1938 | See Source »

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