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...quel prix est la vie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Attitude At Harvard | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Since then no first-class U. S. work in this field had appeared to vie with H. G. Wells's Anticipations or The Sleeper Awakes. But this week one did. The First to Awaken is Granville Hicks's first considerable work of fiction. It would seem to indicate that when Writer Hicks resigned from the Communist Party last autumn he began to live again. Nicely, almost winningly written, in a sort of First Reader style, and full of sunny, skillful little pen drawings by Collaborator Richard Bennett, the book should fascinate those readers who would just as soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 2040 A.D. | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

Jaakko Mikkola and his cinder pounders will meet six other college tomorrow at Franklin Field in Philadelphia for the mythical championship of the Ivy League. Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale will vie with the Crimson in the annual heptagonal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cindermen Vie for Ivy League Title in Heptagonal Tomorrow | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...vie est belle (Repeat above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: French Wartime Songs | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Mayor Levi pronounces his name lee-vie, is distressed when he hears it called lee-vee, regards his ancestry as Anglo-Saxon. He is friendlier to the Jewish influx than was Founder Fisher, whose companies' hotels still bar Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pleasure Dome | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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