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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In Washington, D. C., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Minister Guy La Chambre and Film Director Rene Clair. In 1916 Heriat gave up his studies to enlist, fought for 20 months. His first book, The Lamb, won the Renaudot Prize in 1931. The Spoiled Children, winner of the Goncourt, is his seventh.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

¶ Solider stuff: a dollar reprint of William Carlos Williams' In the American Grain. Even for readers who turn up their collars at Williams' sprinkling verses, this book of prose sketches on episodes from American history, first published in 1925 and long out of print, should be a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Nearest approach in The Cosmological Eye to Miller's cumulative power is a nightmare section building up to a bloody, fecund millennium in which a menagerie breaks loose, animals, vegetables and Indians run wild, and there are "no pale white faces, thanks be to Christ!" For the rest, its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Twice to Once. First published in autumn 1938, Twice A Year has established itself as a distinguished periodical, more original in essence if less "experimental" in a literary way than the New Directions annual. Combining autumn 1939 and spring 1940 in a fat third number, the current Twice A Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talking & Doing | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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