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Garrulous Old Boy. North of the Bay of Pylos in Greece, the University of Cincinnati's Archeologist Carl William Blegen unearthed fire-scarred remains of a building which he identified as the palace of Nestor, ancient king of Pylos-the garrulous old boy of the Iliad and Odyssey who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pops | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Weight for weight, the strongest structural material in the world is not steel or any other metal but "an improbable sandwich"-two or more thin sheets of wood pressed together with glue between. This is plywood. In an article describing plywood and its modern technology, FORTUNE last week declared that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Improbable Sandwich | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

Nothing so intrigues a reader of London's illustrated press as a good, meaty article on the daily life of a cinema star, an Earl's daughter, an Indian Raja. On sale in the U. S. last week was the latest U. S. edition of London's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life of a New Yorker | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

All this naturally worried Germany. The official German view: it all means nothing. But nervousness was evident in the war's most roundabout dispatch: Rome's Lavoro Fascista heard from Milan that "it is reported from Amsterdam that The Netherlands press publishes an item dated Berlin, according to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Changes | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

The Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart's shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney and Bogart both killed. In between are too many rounds of blank cartridges to count, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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