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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What he was to do with the Batory, one of the few tenable Polish territories left in the world, was a question which his fleeing Government had no time to answer. Borkowski waited-until finally orders came from the New York Consulate. He was to relinquish his command to Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ship Without a Country | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

A Texan who had studied art and architecture, Tom Woodburn was commissioned in the Infantry a month after the U. S. entered World War I. He hopes it will never have to enter World War II. Wife Margaret and Daughters Betty, 17, and Peggy, 6, are also artists. Two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Persuasive Posters | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

John Sloan's place in contemporary art is so thoroughly accepted that he is in danger of being taken for granted. Gallery-goers find it hard to realize that his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War-I Manhattan were damned as paintings of "The Ashcan School" when his group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Unbuttoned Painter | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Espionage Agent (Warner) tries to do for spy hunters what G-Men did for the FBI in 1935. A timely, slapdash nerve-racker, it has none of the sophisticated humor with which, in such superbly organized spy thrillers as The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, smart British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

For some years Harvard University's anthropological Cassandra, Professor Earnest Albert Hooton, has incessantly trumpeted that mankind is on the biological skids, that man had better find out what to do about it and then do it before it is too late. That was his message in Apes, Men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Raucous Crying | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

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