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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ryder compared himself to an inchworm revolving at the end of a twig, but for all his groping indecision his moonlit fantasies are spacious and simple in design. They reflect his eccentricities (he once proposed marriage to a neighbor the first time he met her because he liked the tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Anatomist, Inchworm | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

In Manhattan, Peter Sabbatino, counsel for Fritz Kuhn, on trial for stealing money from his German-American Bund, made a grandstand play by telling newspapermen he would like an all-Jewish jury. Said he with a straight face: "Jews have been persecuted for centuries; they know what persecution is and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

As it must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Burgess Meredith, as master of ceremonies, set the mood: "What we have to say seriously, can be simply said. It's this:Democracy is a good thing. It works. It may creak a bit, but it works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

For eleven minutes Paul Robeson and a chorus chanted how in 1776 Ol' Sam put on his three-cornered hat, what Patrick Henry told him about liberty or death, about George Washington and Tom Jefferson and what they did, how Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle and Paul Revere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Bravos | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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