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Dates: during 1920-1929
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THE KING WHO WAS A KING-H. G. Wells-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). To Herbert George Wells, as to many another social idealist, man's future means a great deal. But Wells is prophet as well as wisher. Years ago, so he claims, he took a joyride in an aeroplane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kings Like Wells | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

The 25th annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association at Atlantic City last week provided a summary of the U. S. Tuberculosis situation. Estimated number of people infected: 900,000 cases. Sanatorium beds existing for their care: 67,270. Result: doctors, nurses, public health officials and the N. T. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tuberculosis Meeting | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

Editor George Horace Lorimer's Saturday Evening Post has a weekly circulation of three million. Editor Ray Long's Cosmopolitan (owned by Publisher William Randolph Hearst) has a monthly circulation of 1,620,000. Lately these two able men have been engaged in a little game of magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lorimer v. Long | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

And the Grills? With each other they feel very much alone. For Hans there is always one escape. He is a painter. He has a model he paints by day and loves by night?the sea. The beautiful Frau Grill does very little but remember the days when she was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Champagne & Potato-Soup | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

". . . Progress in aviation is not up to the mark. About all that has been done thus far has been to prove that we can fly. . . . "

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ford & NANA | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

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