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...remainder of the ballots are pretty evenly distributed between Flash Gordon and his rocket gun, Blondie and her troublesome babe and husband, Webster's Timid Soul, and daring detective Dick Tracy. Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of Tarzan, must content himself with being the choice of a single...
...word, this Snowden outburst was pathetic. Labor's leaders in Britain are such colorless characters today that for the Party even to flash in the pan last week ghostly Philip Snowden had to rise from his political grave. Reporting on his prophecy, London correspondents canvassed political wiseacres, cabled that the National Government are expected to lose not 200 seats but perhaps 100, which would renew their lease on Power for another five years with an ample majority...
That is what Sagmus said; and that is the Vagabond's way. He is too poor to go otherwise; and too rich to want to do so. Imagination is the free way. Unbounded by space its roads are endless; timeless, its speed is as the flash of ideas. And so perhaps to Rome one hour; to Greece another. A trip to the stars before noon; to the soil of the earth as quickly. Nor will the Vagabond confine himself simply to places; but more important, to ideas. Therein lies the adventure of adventure. So come prepared, ye young ones. Soon...
...Cinemarch of TIME No. V. Was the 15 minutes devoted to pictures of U. S. Army defense plans war propaganda or were the editors sincere in wishing to point out the futility and colossal stupidness of such extravagant expenditures by the flash at the end showing "Lloyd's" ?500-to-1 odds against invasion? If the latter, your editors should remember that the movie public is larger and more impressionable than the magazine's public and doubtless missed the point entirely. Change the accompanying music score to Grieg's Ase's Death instead of the typical Stars and Stripes...
...countless bars, recuperating with the dubious aid of mineral waters, betting on anything from the next race to three dice in a bird cage, horses are still the focus of the town's excitement. Last week, the feature race of the first day of the meet was the Flash, for two-year-olds...