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Tucked off in an inconspicuous corner of many newspapers is a little section called "Ten Years Ago Today," summarizing 24 hours of news of a decade ago and making them sound more remote than the wars of the Medes and the Persians. Because London newspapers are older than most, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Dreadful Havock | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Comparatively unsung across the Hudson, the Newark Museum last week completed its array of summer attractions. Reconstructed in its big, walled garden and restored to the last detail was a one room building of local sandstone, dated 1784-the oldest schoolhouse still standing in Newark. In the airy Museum itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Newark & Dana | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

The early scenes, with their warm, not unhumorous account of a pre-War childhood, and their spanking pace, are fresh and alive. But despite a few touching scenes and a few impassioned ones the play weakens as it proceeds. Jerry never becomes more than a familiar symbol. The plot never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

The first of these Emerson letters is dated 1814, while Madison was still President and the War of 1812 was drawing to its close. The last was written in 1881, when Emerson's mind was beginning to dim. He could no longer spell the simplest words, recall the simplest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Waldo | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Publishing. William Randolph Hearst's $500,000 salary* from Hearst Consoli dated Publications made him the press's No. 1 hired hand. Hearst papers made a point of computing the approximate Federal income tax of their boss: $306,000 ("There was also a State income tax"). Next to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: ABOVE AVERAGE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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