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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Robert Redfield, dean of U. of C.'s Division of Social Sciences, is a cultural anthropologist who had the pleasure of discovering, in 1937, a town in Guatemala whose inhabitants had never heard of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Wallis Warfield Windsor, the Dionne Quintuplets. Last week Dr. Redfield declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What Are We Doing? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

No WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in November | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

To Johns Hopkins Alfred Shriver bequeathed $650,000 for a lecture hall. Its equipment is to be "the best obtainable in the world," its walls covered with murals painted by "the best available artists." What caused the greatest tongue-wagging in Baltimore since Wallis Warfield bagged a King-Emperor was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Baltimore Beauties | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

On the awful night of August 31, the eve of war, when diplomats were making frantic 59th-minute appeals, a wealthy Londoner telephoned his brother in the South of France. Would the brother and his wife like to use the Londoner's private plane to get home? No, thanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Good Old Duke | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Couturier Mainbocher started neither the corset nor the idea of reviving it this year, but his sponsorship was the fillip the trend needed. Mainbocher is a slim, blond, fluty young man who used to play the piano for Cobina Wright, graduated to the editorship of Paris Vogue. He opened his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fillip | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

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