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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years little Maxine lay quietly in bed, while her mother cleaned, bathed, and turned her, fed her through a stomach tube. She grew slowly, like a plant in the dark; her rosy face turned white and blank. One day last week, six-year-old Maxine at last awoke. During her long sleep, she had lost her ability to talk, walk, or command her muscles in any way. She recognized no one, instinctively gulped her food like a newborn infant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Awakening | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Hollywood Cavalcade (20th Century-Fox) is a rather tiresome Technicolored sentimentalizing of Hollywood history under the guise of a love story about a cap-backwards movie director and a star with doorknob eyes. But it contains two silent, black & white remakes of oldtime flicker comedies, complete with piano banging, which make this picture a must for people who appreciate the art of plastering the human face with custard pie at 30 paces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...first few months, the show's armchair guests (at $25-$50 a case) were dilettanti like Princess Kropotkin, Gelett Burgess, Deems Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Margaret Bourke-White. They were given to sniffing up recondite alleys: Lillian Hellman was the only one to show on-the-scent results, solving the mystery of Napoleon's razor in a nick. This month the show tried picking its detectives from fans who write in. More like flatfeet than fancy-dans, the unpaid fans not only proved uniformly baffled, but dull. So last Sunday a group of experts from Hollywood appeared. One, Mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Clew of the Busted Hose | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

More piqued than panicked by Radio News's doubletalk, U. S. broadcasters last week agreed that the less said about it the better. For the record, CBS's busy News Chief Paul White commented: "So preposterous that it scarcely merits the dignity of an objection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Talk | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...N.B.E.R.'s financial research workshop-an estate (next door to Arturo Toscanini), in swank Riverdale, N. Y., with tennis court, swimming pool, view of the Hudson. Handed to them was a stack of raw material: statistics on the purchases of 60,000 U. S. families, collected by white-collar WPAsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Facts on Instalment | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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