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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shaken by their joint experience as jurymen in Poet Masters' earlier Domesday Book, seven representative men of Le Roy, Ill., resolve to confess the inmost secret of their lives. The confessions, mulled by the coroner, complicate his decision to marry Arielle, young, beautiful, mysterious. Her mystery resolves itself into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

It is unlikely that the Athletic Association expects very much from the committee it has appointed to sound out undergraduate opinion on the proposed award to all minor sport teams of a minor "H" without modifications. The H, A. A. knows that attempts to find undergraduate opinion at Harvard are...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOOD SPORTS | 5/15/1929 | See Source »

Let Reader Ring specify what TIME covers he has considered gnomelike, gargoylelike, apelike. Some recent TIME covers included Savana Einstein, Prince Olav & Princess Martha (photographs) ; Senator Smoot, Financier Taylor, Educator Little (drawings); Actor Hampden, Racehorse Barton (in colors).−ED. Merkle Incident

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Your historical ads make as good reading as your indispensable magazine. Recently I enjoyed the one entitled "The Merkle Incident." It was astonishingly complete and very well written, but surely it was mistaken in one important particular. You say, " 'Iron Man' McGinnity, coming on the run, seized the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

Before "The Merkle Incident" was written, TIME wrote John Evers, now Coach for the Boston Braves, for the true version of the play. Evers says McGinnity struggled with Tinker, not with him, as Fan Swenson declares. The Evers letter:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 13, 1929 | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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