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Last week the Greater New York Fund-community chest for 380 Catholic, Protestant, Jewish health and welfare bodies-held a dinner to rally workers. Its 1939 campaign goal: $10,000,000. Speech of the evening was made by that most coherent of speechmaking bankers, Thomas William Lament. Banker Lament did not speak of sweet charity alone. On his mind was something currently bothering many a man of good will. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Intolerant Mutterings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...eyelids. Dr. Burr added up the evidence, concluded that every living organism is surrounded by an electrodynamic field. Its electrical pattern develops along with its physiological structure. Dr. Burr further reported that the electrodynamic field of mice is altered by incipient breast cancer - an important addition to the hope chest of early cancer diagnosis in human beings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...glided out of her dressing room into the bustle of a rehearsal. Behind the stage a group of half-clad mermaids were clustered about Johnny Weismuller who had condescended to lot them admire his great chest...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: No Aquacade Nudity, Says Miss Holm; Likes Harvard Men, Wants to See Them | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Billy Rose, the little man with elephantiasis of the imagination, was showing little interest in the former Mr. Lupe Velez' chest expansion...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: No Aquacade Nudity, Says Miss Holm; Likes Harvard Men, Wants to See Them | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

...recent surge of nationalism has turned Hollywood's attention back to a uniquely American type of hero, the hairy-chested Western badman. But the chest of "The Oklahoma Kid" is sparsely covered with hair. In fact, the whole production has little muscle, little mind, small sense, and less sensibility. Cagney is thrown into a weak part to satisfy the ambitions of the directors to produce an "epic drama". All they achieve is a lot of noise, no subtlety, no poignancy, no emotional strength. "The Oklahoma Kid" is no epic,--just a second feature misplaced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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