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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week apparently something had once more gone wrong for Richard Knight. His wife was in Reno, suing for divorce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Four years later Richard Knight had a $200,000 bank account, was earning more than $80,000 a year. He specialized in sensational divorce cases. Not yet 30, Lawyer Knight lived in a suite at the St. Regis. He drove a Cadillac, had spent a week on the Riviera with a celebrated prima donna, boasted that he called Mrs. Vincent Astor by her first name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Knight's Gambit | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Last week Hatfield Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Transfer | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Last week Tabouis, out on a limb as usual, flatly predicted a peaceful settlement of little Finland's unwilling controversy with Soviet Russia. Next day a Soviet army crossed Finland's frontier (see p. 23) and Soviet planes dropped bombs on Helsinki. Tabouis followers were neither angry nor surprised. They had long ago learned to take her utterances with a shakerful of salt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aunt Genevi | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...Week before he reopened his uncut Hamlet on Broadway, British Actor Maurice Evans was asked: "Who is the best Hamlet you've ever seen?" Prompt Evans retort: "I haven't got any mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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