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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matched only by hers are done to a turn by Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid. Overcoming a tendency to over-act at first, Patricia Collinge is at the end the most convincing (if that is possible) of them all: her last scene where her memories of plantation youth contrast bitterly with her present drunkenness is an autobiography by itself. Each of the little foxes is perfect; moulded together by Lillian Hellman they make an extraordinary play...

Author: By L. L., | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1940 | See Source »

...doors of economic opportunity barricaded to youth by the sluggish condition of American enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICAN PROGRAM: For Dynamic America | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...this petty war is fear of a bigger one. Both countries are courting neutral Italy assiduously, as a sort of insurance. And Italy, herself looking for insurance, wants Rumania and Hungary to get together in a solid anti-Soviet Balkan bloc. Last week Theophilus Sidorovici, leader of the Rumanian youth movement and reputed agent of King Carol II, was in Rome, where he gave the Pope a Rumanian carpet and mosaic of the Virgin, gave Premier Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano King Carol's regards. Hungarians, viewing this visit with suspicion, let it be known that Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Budapest pests | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

Almost as phenomenal as his comic-strip career is Superman's vogue with U. S. youth. He appears in 77 U. S. dailies, 36 Sunday papers. With Superman its ace, the magazine Action Comics' net paid circulation has whooped since June 1938 from 130,000 to 800,000. Superman Quarterly is gobbled up at the rate of 1,300,000 copies an edition. The Superman Club has 100,000 members, including Eric & Jean LaGuardia, Spanky McFarland (Our Gang Comedies), a La Follette, a Du Pont, eleven middies from Annapolis, 16 students at Hiram (Ohio) College. In the works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: H-O Superman | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...shop. Next to the shop is a big black door with gleaming brass street numbers-1324. Most passers-by never notice it. But one night last week important business was afoot at No. 1324 Massachusetts Ave. The big black door swung open ten times, each time admitting a blindfolded youth and an escort. These couples marched up the creaky steps, stood at last in a place where, in its long history, few ordinary mortals had set foot. The place: Harvard's Porcellian Club, other wise known as P.C. or "the Pore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pore | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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