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Many people may object to some conclusion reached by this method but they will never doubt its honesty and none will find fault with the Harvard tradition as outlined last night by Mr. Conant. With such a foundation, construction cannot go far wrong. Surely, it was an auspicious meeting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN AUSPICIOUS MEETING | 9/21/1935 | See Source »

...withdraw advertising. Papers he admitted working on without success were the New York Times and the Scripps-Howard group. He had also protested vigorously comments by Arthur Brisbane and the late Will Rogers anent holding companies. The Hearst Press as a whole and the Gannett chain he found no fault with. In fact he had wired William-Randolph Hearst ideas for editorials, had increased his advertising in Hearst papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Investigation by Headlines | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

That Shanghai is both less informative and less exciting than the article in Fortune which suggested it to Producer Walter Wanger is not the fault of Actor Boyer. He functions with his usual skill, contrives to make Dmitri that most familiar of cinema anomalies, a plausible individual surrounded by implausible events. Good shot : the board room of a broker's office with customers in evening dress waiting for the market to open in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 29, 1935 | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...fault most likely to creep into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sanders of the River | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...running away to the cemetery, but as the little cart on which he propelled himself could only move in a circle, he never got there. Aunt Tirelo, like David Copperfield's Mr. Dick, was engaged on an endless historical work, proving that the sorrows of France were the fault of Marie Antoinette. Monsieur Jarridge, a notary, was in charge of the legal affairs of 99 lunatics, and amused himself by mixing up the files, finally by burning the records, declaring that his clients were quite capable of managing their own affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Flanders Fey | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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