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...practical Chiang broke sharply with Moscow. Last week what he seemed to be doing behind his façade of New Life Movement broadcasting was to sound out the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee thoroughly as to whether or not in 1937 Nanking should end its ten-year tiff with the Soviets and team up with Moscow once more, this time for aid in a Chinese war with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Widest Democrats | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...California football squad with a nice stretch of work this summer at standard Hollywood pay for costume extras. Cinemaddicts who are also football fans will recognize Tod Goodwin, famed star of the New York Giants (professional) at end. The burly, dark-haired young man who stops a locker-room tiff between Paddy O'Riley (Tom Brown) and Dutch Schultz (Benny Baker) is Nick Lukats, 1933 Notre Dame halfback, now a Paramount contract player. Director Charles Barton needed this kind of cast. Rose Bowl's games are not composed of matched stock-shots in the accepted current technique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1936 | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

Dream tours have been a stock joke in Philadelphia for years. Stokowski has talked of taking the Philadelphia Orchestra to Europe, South America, the Orient. One reason for his tiff with his directors last season was their failure to see their way clear to financing a tour while there was a considerable deficit at home (TIME, Oct. 29, 1934 et seq.). The angel that suddenly popped up was RCA Victor, for which Stokowski and his orchestra make many a red-seal phonograph record. RCA Victor underwrote the current tour for $250,000, hoping to get back much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Philadelphians in Pullmans | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...Conant's college, inasmuch as yesterday was Christmas according to the Coptic calendar, is known as an expert on International Law. He has been living in Paris since completing his work here, and succeeds M. Auberson, a Swiss, legal authority, with whom it is rumored Haile had a slight tiff...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD ENDS NEUTRALITY BY SENDING HAILE ONE M.A. | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

...most starting plays of the Kirkland Eliot tiff was when a backfield man with a clear field to the goal line looked back at his running opponent and tripped over a helmet dropped by his interference on the five yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Whipe Dunster 6.0 As Kirkland Trounce Eliot | 10/16/1935 | See Source »

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