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...Washington and worked out a settlement with which she announced herself "extremely well pleased." Less pleased with Mr. Rand's terms, the strike leaders pondered, postponed acceptance. Elsewhere in the seething cauldron of U. S. Labor old and new sit-downs and walkouts continued to splash up and vanish in a constant boil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Everybody's Doing It | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

...make the revival endure, a salaried coach, preferably from faculty ranks, will have to be called in and made available to the sharks and the dabblers alike. If the Debating Council can nerve itself for radical and far-reaching reforms along these lines, the danger of passing out will vanish like clouds in the morning before the wind of undergraduate enthusiasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW LIFE FOR DEBATING | 3/25/1937 | See Source »

Four knights move away from the circle. They feel at their sides for their swords and while the King is still talking vanish from the hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/20/1937 | See Source »

...Conklin, a cynosure three seasons ago when she bundled in The Pursuit of Happiness, as a serious young woman with journalistic ambitions which have no outlet for the moment except acting as her mother's secretary. The horn-rimmed glasses and blue jeans in which she first appears vanish quickly, but not the raspberry-ice freshness of manner which saves her cutenesses from being altogether silly. A topical note is injected into this warm and sprightly comedy when she asks her father: ''What do you think of these 15 judges-do you think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...young couple invited Shaw to live with them when overwork brought on a breakdown. Says he: "It was probably the happiest passage in our three lives." But soon his Mystic Betrothal began to assert itself. "I had to consummate it or vanish." His friendship with the inoffensive Sparling made the thought of stealing his wife revolting. Nor could the three friends arrange a divorce because Shaw could not afford to marry and Sparling could not afford to be divorced. Moreover, the scandal would have damaged the Cause. Shaw left. To his astonishment Sparling left soon after. May Morris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaw's Friends | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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