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When a reputable man of letters such as John Drinkwater writes a flattering biography of such a tycoon as Carl Laemmle (TIME, May 4), angels weep, men laugh knowingly. When famed and popular Author André Maurois writes a no less flattering account of his still-extant compatriot, Marshal of France Hubert Lyautey, angels may control themselves but men will exchange speculative glances. There is no comparison between the two books, as jobs, nor between the two men who form their subjects. But after reading Lyautey and remembering Ariel, you cannot help feeling that this horn-toot by Andr...
...Wood, at a luncheon given for Don next day: "We did not know that we had gone over the line more than five seconds ahead of the gun until we were signalled with a red flag at the judges stand. . . ." But when confronted by interviewers, Wood began to weep. He said: "We wanted to get over first. . . . I've been racing for years and we've done the best we could to carry the American flag on our boats in a sportsmanlike way. . . ." He said he had been misquoted, misunderstood, misjudged...
After Tomorrow. The play which Producer John Golden has chosen to usher in this season sets out deliberately to make its audiences weep. If spectators are compelled to blubber at After Tomorrow they must realize that, like Alice's, their tears are not real tears. They are being hoodwinked by bald and brazen theatrical bathos...
...delivered with the morning's milk. The National laboratories, headed by vitamin-expert Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum (TIME, April 6), were experimenting with two new products; soft curd milk and sweet acidophilus. More important, National was pressing, on two fronts, its bold expansion policy. For though people may weep during Depression, still they must eat and drink and National Dairy is marching steadily...
...mining communities of America might attract attention by changing their names to ones suitable to their conditions. We suggest the following: Bare Creek, Empty Dinner Pail, Starving Children, Ragtown, Tattered Clothes, Hooverhit, Jobless, Empty Belly, Depression, Moaning Widows, Too-Weak-to-Weep, Turnip-greens, Nogrub, Patches, Mounting Debts, Sunken Eyes, Hollow Cheeks, Hungry Guts, Rickets, Scurvy, Pellagra, Last...