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...young newspapermen who last week had the first big news of a great war all to themselves. Attached to the Associated Press bureau in Budapest, he set out northward as Polish resistance dissolved into rout before Germany's mechanized might, passed lines of stolid peasants straggling into Hungary, sullen groups of soldiers retreating across the border, and reached LwÓw as it was crashing into ruins after 14 days of steady bombing by German planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fair-Haired Boys | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Because a Paris weekly (Pour Vous) reported that she had been angling for a job as Nazi propagandist, sullen-eyed, Polish-born Cinemactress Polo Negri (real name: Appollonia Chalupec), 40, got herself up in a salmon-pink outfit, stormed into court, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. Last week Cinemactress Negri was awarded 10,000 francs (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...necessary, they are migrant workers who harvest the orchards and vineyards, the cotton and vegetable fields of the richest valleys on earth. Their homes are filthy squatters' camps on the side roads, beside the rivers and irrigation ditches. Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest. They are called the "Oakies." There are 250,000 of them-a leading U. S. social problem, and participants in one of the grimmest migrations of history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oakies | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...Evans Hamlet. Doubtless a reaction from the involved psychological analyses so commonly foisted upon the original character in recent years, Mr. Evans' interpretation is vigor ous, and comparatively speaking, simple. To the ghost, Hamlet shows a nature capable of passionate hatred; to his uncle, he is actively hostile, not sullen or melancholy; to Polonius, he is flip, humorous; to Ophelia, deeply in love; to his mother, pitiless, scornful. Even when alone, Hamlet the melancholy philosopher is subordinate to Hamlet the emotional youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 4/12/1939 | See Source »

...third Dodatmor has a disconcerting habit of resting upside down on the surface of the water. This little trick has already caused him to be thrown out for dead several times. Made sullen by such treatment, Number Three now refuses or show any signs of life at all, just floating there all day, thinking and thinking with his big brain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fish-- | 12/15/1938 | See Source »

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