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...Miss Grace Hume, in which the latter was supposed to write that her right breast had been hacked off by Germans in Belgium. Since Miss Grace Hume had never been out of England and was sensitive about her breast, she denounced her sister, but not until the story had grown to national prominence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ponsonby's Report | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Biggest Campbell | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stillman Panorama | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...This will be heartrending to those who love to think of the yard as synonymous with the college. Possibly the alumni will protest so loudly that the authorities will listen and modify their plans. But the whole trouble--from a sentimental stand-point--is that the university has out-grown its original boundaries and is obliged to find room elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's New Front Door | 1/18/1929 | See Source »

...clipping from the editorial page of the New York Herald Tribune that appears in another column is an excellent criticism of a type of writing that magazine readers have grown familiar with in recent years. Colleges and college students have been diagnosed as suffering from one disease after another, and where commercialism is now the sword hanging over their heads it is not so many years since football overemphasis occupied the same position. Sensationalism when it deals with the universities becomes dignified to critical analysis and holds prominent position on the title pages of publications of the highest rank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LIMELIGHT BLUES | 1/15/1929 | See Source »

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