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...Branch Cabell) that good novels cannot be written about the present age; a writer needs "the perspective of years to know what most of it amounts to-if anything." Not because his theory is necessarily correct, but because he has written good U. S. historical romances (Drums, Long Hunt, et al.), readers will be glad that Bitter Creek returns to the past. Set in the West of the '70s, it is a historical close-up which confirms James Boyd's high stand in the historical-romance industry...
...independent union leaders; F. D. R. and Eleanor, Bernard Shaw, Warden Lawes, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Joseph Stalin, Marion Davies, Lord Tweedsmuir, The Anglican Archbishop of Canter bury, de Valera, Harry Bridges, James Joyce, Mayors Kelly, Hague and LaGuardia, Robert M. Hutchins, the Sure Shot Exterminating Co., et...
Added this week to the union musicomedy Pins and Needles (TIME, Dec. 20, 1937, et seq.) was a peace skit called Papa Lewis, Mama Green. Excerpt...
...balcony of St. Peter's, as twilight turned to darkness, stepped a tall, lean, greying man in white, wearing an ermine-bordered red cape. Pope Pius XII -whose 63rd birthday it was-raised his hand in the gesture of a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world...
When 63 gassed, weeping, retching sit-downers fled from two North Chicago plants in 1937, they presented U. S. Labor and jurisprudence with the celebrated case of NLRB v. Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (TIME, March 1, 1937, et. seq.). Issue: Sit-down v. Property...