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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 »

Choicest anti-Government epithets came from Colonel Josiah C. Wedgwood of Newcastle-under-Lyme, the great potter's great-great-great-grandson. Colonel Wedgwood, "last of the great individualists," is a igth-Century fighting liberal, so independent that he would not even join the Independent Labor Party. Highlights of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Expediency | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Blonde, 19-year-old Dorothy Davis is probably the most beautiful corporation president in the world. Her firm: Love, Inc., of Manhattan. Her commodity: Love, a game. In effect, Love is parchesi with sex appeal. Players start single, win by pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Games | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Most generally confused classes in this hierarchy are producers and directors. Actually, producers and directors are not only quite distinct, but they are natural enemies. Producers may be defined as glorified executives who wear immaculate street clothes, sit in luxurious offices, hold conferences around shiny tables and concern themselves primarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Columbia's Gem | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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