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The man who won Italy's war with Ethiopia was last week spotted by doctors as being an Anglicized Italian, Knight Commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Aldo Castellani, whose wife is English and whose only daughter two years ago married British High Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Man Who Won the War | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

When Manager Edward Johnson accepted his post last spring he announced that his experiments would be limited at first to the supplementary spring season. True to his word, the first big production experiment was last week's Bartered Bride in English. Word leaked out from rehearsals that it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Experiment | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

But Engels was much more than a revo lutionary scholar's meal ticket. He and Marx collaborated constantly on their analysis of capitalism, their prophecies of capitalism's doom. He was quicker-witted and a more facile writer than Marx, who once told him: "You know that I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marx's Engels | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

Helpful Joseph. The only bright spot in Anthony Eden's bitter week was the presence of a new French delegate. Hulking, outspoken Foreign Minister Flandin had to stay in France to do a little belated campaigning for the coming parliamentary elections. To take his place, he sent a predecessor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diplomacy Widow | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Sharp-witted Partner Thomas W. Lament, who feared this pronouncement might not make good publicity, intervened in a fruitless attempt to persuade the correspondents to ignore it. Good were Mr. Lament's premonitions. Partner Morgan's opinions on the leisure class were kidded on the front pages of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Old Man's Leisure | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

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