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Died. Tewfik ("success") Nessim Pasha, 64, three times Egypt's Prime Minister; of heart disease; in Cairo. Leader of Fuad's Cabinet for two short ministries in the 20s, again from 1934-36, taciturn Nessim Pasha was more successful as a business man than as a politician. After his last resignation his life was occupied by making & breaking engagements to marry 17-year-old Maria Huebner, a Viennese hotel keeper's daughter...
...early 20s the Literary Digest had become one of the greatest publishing successes in history. Its weekly juxtaposition of contrary newspaper opinion and cartoons had won it 1,400,000 readers, made it a national institution, a schoolroom textbook, a gold mine for its publishers, Funk & Wagnalls Co. No small part of its prestige came from its famed straw votes, whose ballots were accompanied by profitable subscription appeals. For the best part of a generation these polls forecast national election results with great accuracy. But gift premiums added to straw votes were not sufficient to offset growing public apathy toward...
...Page, co-managing editor of The Digest. He will edit the new weekly. Mr. Havell thinks The Digest flopped because it reflected too much editorial bias. His remedy will be reversion to the classic neutrality of juxtaposed newspaper comment which characterized the Literary Digest of the late '20s when it had 1,400,000 circulation. Beginning Nov. 13 the Literary Digest's, cover will appear bedecked in action color photographs. Its interior will contain: 1) a review of the week's news, 2) special articles and big-name features, 3) something called "Reading around the world." Says...
...mark of a bathroom skylight that fell on him.) He claims to have learned more about war from his post-War reporting of battles in the Near East than he ever did through his own soldiering. This reporting was done for the Toronto Star in the early '20s. Hemingway was by that time married (to Hadley Richardson, childhood Michigan friend), comfortably established in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris. In his spare time he diligently wrote the short stories later to be published as Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), and in our time (1924). Both were issued by small advance...
Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...