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Edmund Gilligan's Boundary Against Night (1938) was an ambitious, untidy, talented novel about the Boston Police Strike, included two Bannon brothers among its characters. White Sails Crowding is told by an earlier Bannon. No less high-blooded but tidier, it is a deliberately old-fashioned story of romantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Banks Romance | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week at the Galerie Quatre Chemins in Paris, Maurice Grosser displayed his latest and most interesting creations: paintings of fruits and vegetables in heroic sizes (twice to twelve times nature). By this simple device of magnification, Grosser has lately made strawberries and peppers not merely more edible but more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heroic Vegetables | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

When I first saw the heavily Jewish passenger list I was in the same frame of mind as Mr. Caldwell-all sympathy and just waiting for a chance to condemn any discourtesy on the part of German passengers or ship's personnel. . . . Instead, they made themselves thoroughly objectionable, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

The day after the election of Pope Pius XII last March, lumbering, untidy, gentle-hearted Heywood Broun wrote a respectful column in which he said:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conversion | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

In short, sharply chiseled chapters, some of which are little essays on autocracy, some of which are so rhetorical that they scan even in translation, The Age of the Fish warns that the world is floating into cold times in which "the souls of men, my friend, will become as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cold Times Are Coming | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

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