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...Farewell to Arms. Laurence Stallings was a co-author of What Price Glory and of Rainbow. Best that can be said of his adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's bit ter, static War novel is that Mr. Stallings has attempted to interpolate little of his own material. Worst that can be said is that his editing of Hemingway's material is questionable. None of the close-knit Hemingway scenes were without importance: they were all inseparable and significant. By eliminating such memorable sequences as Lieut. Henry's wounding, his escape into Switzerland with Nurse Catherine Barkley (which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 6, 1930 | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...ter which, for their remaining three undergraduate year, they will be apportioned among the seven Houses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRICE LAUDS HOUSE PLAN AND NEW BUILDINGS IN CURRENT BULLETIN ISSUE | 9/26/1930 | See Source »

...gave the Women's Gymnasium and many a scholarship. Across the stage of the famed Greek theatre runs the legend: THE GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. Two sons of Publisher Hearst, who also gave the Mining Building, matriculated at California: George and William Randolph Jr. From Banker Amadeo Pe ter Giannini (Bancamerica-Blair) came the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. From Miss Ellen Browning Scripps (Scripps-Howard newspapers) came the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Soon to be opened is an international house?similar to one in Manhattan and to one abuilding at the University of Chicago?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: California's Investment | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Last week, like other Presidents before him, he wrote and released a personal let ter to an old friend. It was an exposition of his Presidential philosophy, a broad de fense of his policies, his credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Truth | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Since Sept. 2, 1662, when "Jan Bosch, from Westphalen," arrived in the U. S. aboard the Fox from the Netherlands, the Bush family has seen many a change. In 1747 Ter Bos and Ter Bosch became Ter Bush, and more recently Irving and his brother, Professor Wendell T. Bush of Columbia University, reduced the Ter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bullish Bush | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

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