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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week's [TIME, July 11] make-up (technical term unknown) was most pleasing. Delighted with the elimination of Religion. Being a person of no discrimination, I read from cover to cover and always waded painfully with boredom & bewilderment, thru Religion. The relief of not having to read it this time was exquisite...
...Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...
...Berlin axis, French Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge. The effectiveness of Russian assistance, weakened by purges in the Red Army and by internal conditions, is a large unknown. However, what Bismarck said about Bohemia still holds, and if Czechoslovakia's allies might not come to the aid of Czechoslovakia, they might come to the aid of democracy and Europe...
Last week the explanation was out. One of the Yalta scientists found a man chopping wood in the hall of the station. Other "quakes" had been caused by people moving furniture, children playing leapfrog, adults fighting. Unknown to Yalta's unobservant seismologists these people had been moved into the seismology station by the Yalta housing committee. The committee, cabled the New York Times's Harold Denny, thought seismology a worthless science anyway since the toppling of buildings was sufficient indication that an earthquake was happening...
Vandalism had not been unknown in Kansas City but, with "Wally" Mahan's rise to power, it became a "wave." Its most frequent form was window-breaking with an occasional bombing for emphasis. Victims were owners of a wide variety of stores, from statuary shops to hamburger stands, who spurned the suggestions of North Side thugs masquerading as union organizers...