Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the headlines scream KIDNAPED, St. Louis has learned to wonder at once whether it will be the worthy Post-Dispatch or the noisy Star that ultimately takes credit for solving the case. Last January it was the Star's Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge who brought about the capture of the kidnapers of 13-year-old Adolphus Busch Orthwein (TIME, Jan. 12). Last May it was the Post-Dispatch's ace, John T. Rogers, who returned the kidnaped Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley to his home (TIME, May 11). Last week it was Reporter Rogers again who, on the strength...
...newsmen regarded with wonder the action of a Canadian Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...
Their fiftieth football game is the particular occasion for this gathering of Eli and Harvard men. This year, certainly, the visitors from New Haven will wonder at the physical changes which have taken place about Cambridge. And next autumn, Harvard men must undoubtedly receive a similar surprise as they wander through Yale's Harkness House Plan...
...fellow, poor like the rest of his neighbors, but with a good wife, two sons and a daughter. Everything went as well as could be expected for Mendel until his last child, Menuchim, was born?a cripple, practically an idiot. When his mother carried the child to the wonder-working Rabbi he said: "Pain will make him wise, ugliness good, bitterness mild, and sickness strong!" But Menuchim went on being a cripple, practically an idiot...
Though it is the fourth play to bombard the cinema, Wonder Boy manages to do it with new weapons. The story of the would-be dentist cajoled into brief stardom is Hollywood legend. So is Phil Mashkin's remark: "In two words, im-possible." Well acted, cleverly directed, Wonder Boy is a live & funny play...