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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unsolicited contributions are ever considered for the two periodicals with the greatest circulations on earth. From a humming limbo of secrecy and editorial anonymity, these two publications emerge almost simultaneously twice a year. Each copy weighs about 4 lb., costs its publisher about 75?. Yet readers get them free. The current issues would fill a freight train some ten miles long, will net the U. S. Government about $1,300,000 in postage. Although they consist entirely of advertising, they provide abundant fireside entertainment for 14,000,000 people. From Chicago fanwise over the world last week began to spread...
...some 900 of our best pictures, with selected works from great private collections." Generous to the last in loaning drawings from his own collection, "Hen Opp" died in 1932. Proceeds of last week's sale, occasioned by the death of Oppenheimer's widow, are estimated to be twice the amount the collector originally paid, will go to Sons Paul and Eric, less Christie...
...doll-men scenes were made by re-projecting double-exposed images upon a measured screen, but most of them required the vastly simpler although staggeringly expensive method of literal photography in sets six times normal size. These scenes were shot on MGM's famed Stage No. 12, twice as big as any other soundstage on the lot. Unlike Director Tod Browning's Freaks, or most of the famed Lon Chaney silents which he made, The Devil-Doll's hobgoblinery beguiles rather than frightens...
...Twice he left the State Department, twice returned ; once for Woodrow Wilson in 1914, once for Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. That Republican Phillips was so honored by two Democrats was proof both of his ability and his studied disdain of politics...
...Twice during the past three weeks, newshawks thought there was personal significance in papal remarks. When he elevated Librarians Giovanni Mercati and Eugène Tisserant to the cardinalate (TIME, June 22), the Pope said: "We invite the Catholic faithful to pray that the Lord permit us, so long as life lasts, to pass it in unceasing, fruitful work. . . ." Scanning plans for improvements to St. Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance...