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Dates: during 1940-1940
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If the play is autobiographical, as is rumored, it is hoped that there is in the Hart family no prototype of Raymond, the Fuller's young nephew of about 12. This is indeed a poisonous character played to the "t" by Robert Readick and is probably the most amusing person...

Author: By R. T. S., | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 9/28/1940 | See Source »

"Act With The Stars" is not Gidding's best story, but his understanding of a character, in this case Crystal Lodus, was never keener. Somehow Crystal, with all her cheap beauty and her intense longing for the far-away love of a Tyrone Power or Alfred Gwymne Vanderbilt, is a...

Author: By Lawrence Lader, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/24/1940 | See Source »

But except for fertilizer (which it makes at Muscle Shoals), TVA does not expect to exploit these resources. Once a gobbler of private utilities, David Lilienthal is now engaged in creating attractions for private capital to come to his Valley. At the same time ("We have obligations to the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: TVA in Arms | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

For Wolfe is the only real character in his posthumous novels. The others are props and foils, caught up and jolted into a semblance of animation by the Wolfian earthquake. Thomas Wolfe spent his short life trying to experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burning, Burning, Burning | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

"Economic Problems of National Defense" deals with the effect of defense activities on the economy of the country. It considers economic systems in peace and war, the character of economic warfare, the financing of a defense program and the distribution of its burden. Problems involved in wartime price control, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Business School Expands Curriculum | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

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