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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Icebound (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC-Blue). Owen Davis' 1923 Pulitzer Prize winner in condensed revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Jun. 13, 1938 | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Compromise came last week in the I. L. O. elections when Mr. Phelan withdrew, accepted the deputy directorship, paved the way for the election of Mr. Winant. Japanese Delegate Juitsu Kitaoka, annoyed at reports he opposed an American director, pulled for the winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Novices | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...wooded cluster in the village of Norton, Mass.; one of its 22 buildings dates from its founding in 1834. Jointly arranged by the Museum of Modern Art and ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, the competition carried a first prize of $400, several smaller prizes. But Wheaton agreed to hire the winner as architect of the art centre, pay him six per cent of the building's cost as his fee, advance him $1,000 which would be considered a cash award in case the art centre was not built. To make sure that some designs would be successful, Architects Walter Gropius, Marcel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Wheaton's Theatre | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

Each year a group of French literary notables and near-notables meets for lunch at the Restaurant Drouant in Paris, and votes for the winner of the Goncourt Prize. They are the members of the Goncourt Academy, and their sole function is that of awarding 5,000 francs to the author of "the year's best work of fiction." There are supposed to be ten members at the luncheon, but the venerable revolutionary writer, Lucien Descaves, refuses to attend meetings with Royalist Leon Daudet, always mails in his vote. After lunch, the Academy's youngest member announces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Member | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

...Tristan Bernard, Novelists Colette and Jules Romains. But for 23 years Leon Daudet has been beating the drum for his fellow Royalist, dramatist and novelist, gushy Rene Benjamin. Little known in the U. S., where few of his books have been translated, Benjamin is known in France as a winner of a Goncourt Prize himself, as General Franco's most lyric supporter. Interviewing Franco last year, Benjamin called the general beautiful, lovely, ravishing, mysterious, tender and pure. "He is not tall," rhapsodized Author Benjamin, "his body is timid. Ah! His glance is unforgettable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Member | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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