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...close of each year U.S. publishers, politest of businessmen, review the successes of competing firms with the outward suavity and smoldering wrath of tigers in a jungle. Usually the triumphs of lively newcomers are most dreaded. But this year the talk and envy of the trade is a centenarian-Boston's house of Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little, Brown's Big Year | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Died. Julia Richards, III, famed cigar-smoking centenarian of Yolo County, Calif.; of old age; in Yolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...Walpole from his own novel, is an earnest, lachrymose romance of the Jubilee Era, slightly oversold on its message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 11, 1935 | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

Installed. Dr. Thomas Darlington, 73, of Manhattan; as Grand Sachem of the Tammany Society (Hall) to succeed the late centenarian John Richard Voorhis (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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