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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In TIME, Oct. 30, you quote the New York Times as saying: "Men and women in Salem, two centuries ago, were burned for witchcraft far less amazing. . . ." Cannot your magazine help to put the quietus on this old lie, which crops up periodically? No witches were ever burned in New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

In this part of the country, when someone jumps into a gap in the conversation with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

This must be the French cousin of our story. Or is ours the American version of the French story? Is there an English cousin? Will this story pop up wherever Hitler's mere existence is a blight or a threat? It is almost a folk tale already. I should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

He should, however, brush up on what has been happening throughout the long years of his absence before bursting forth with any such smug, sectionalistic, and effete example of ignorance as his "minor league," "hillbilly," and "subsidized players" effort in TIME, Oct. 30. True, circumstances have forced him to dig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

"Key Largo" is a play with an axe to grind. Plot and cast are subordinate to the grinding. So is the entertainment value. But with such men as McClintic, Mielziner, and Muni at the helm of the production, the element of entertainment is far from gone. McClintic and Mielziner are...

Author: By W. E. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 11/18/1939 | See Source »

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