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It all happened in the quiet dust-laden corriders of Widener late last spring. Immersed in ruminations about the profoundest of themes the famous Professor of English was leisurely wending his way along the scholastic labyrinths when his wandering eye lit upon the figure of a man proceeding him through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 10/13/1934 | See Source »

Sordid indeed to a man like Sir Kingsley is the memory of how, when he distributed 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs last year to branch post offices, more than 1,200 vanished in the first month. Undaunted, Sir Kingsley last week planned to distribute 10,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tolls & Nibs | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

Author Bradford's Negro dialect has an authentic ring but is stamped with his own mark. In almost every book he introduces some memorable tag of nigger-talk. In Ol' Man Adam an' His Chillun it was: "Soap an' water, country boy"- deep South for Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastures Still Green | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

In his story of vicarious travel in the Far East, 26-year-old Oxonian Fleming first takes us along the outside rim of Red China, along the Trans-Siberian Express, from Moscow to Manchukuo. Fleming is immediately disarming as he announces that this is "a superficial account of an unsensational...

Author: By J. H. H., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

The Government claimed to possess proof last week that Director Apold would have received a portfolio in the Nazi Cabinet expected to be formed in Austria, after Dollfuss' assassination, by the late Chancellor's treacherous Minister to Italy. Dr. Anton Rintelen who sought to commit suicide when the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Iron Mountain Squeeze | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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