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Lampy was so thrilled by the possibilities of the air waves during its fake broadcast last Wednesday night that two of the Ibis poets will make a return engagement this evening to read their own works over the Crimson Network...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Silver Tongued 'Poonsters To Read Poetry Tonight | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

According to Professor Whitehead, the misconception of independent existence has haunted Western philosophy for centuries. He attacked our dogmatic conceptions of "knowledge" stating that "the self-confidence of learned people is the tragic comedy of human existence." Out sciences, based on dogmatic exactness are a fake, he concluded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Huge Crowd at Whitehead Lecture Forces Migration to Memorial Chapel | 4/23/1941 | See Source »

MURDERS IN VOLUME 2 - Elizabeth Daly - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Henry Gamadge, scholarly detector of fake books, takes on a spot of work for the old New York Vauregards, finds it bloodier by far than printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: March Murders | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Amendment. In Albany, a bill to make it a misdemeanor to report a fake robbery "to a police officer or any other person" was hastily amended when Senator Lazarus Joseph pointed out that "if I should lose some money in a poker game and explain to my wife I had been robbed, she could put me in jail just to get even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...best-seller needs: an alliterative title, a fat part for Tyrone Power when it reaches the films, and the ingredients of what critics like to call a rattling good yarn. It is set in the 18th Century, sauced with its political restiveness, and skillfully served up in a fake-archaic, first-person prose that has fibre enough to support a novel twice as serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bastard's Chronicle | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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