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Out toward naked Montauk Point, the 190-ft. Mackay Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Abyss from the Indies | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Like North Americans, South Americans listen to long-wave broadcasts from local stations. They laugh at U. S. attempts to play tangos, but are interested in every thing President Roosevelt has to say, while baffled by reports of Presidential fishing trips. Their own commercial radio stations give them entertainment which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Honeymoon Survey | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Their little 99-page book is illustrated with pigs running, boys fishing, trapeze artists swinging, clocks walking ("time marches on" = present tense). This is the way A Living Grammar teaches children to remember the parts of speech:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EDUCATION: Living Grammar | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Below Sea Level | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

Spawn of the North (Paramount), a sprawling $1,100,000 Western of the North, describes how Henry Fonda, as law & order, drove Akim Tamiroff, as Russian piracy, out of the Alaskan salmon runs in the early 1900s. Whenever Akim Tamiroff's blackhearted Russians were surprised poaching somebody else'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1938 | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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