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The last pre-Freshman year of a school student is haunted by the ominous specter of college entrance examinations. If his grades are poor, he is naturally worried; if his grades are high, he resents the necessity of having to prove his merits by supplying stereotyped information at a given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Strait-jacket | 11/23/1931 | See Source »

First Logan prize went to Russian-born Morris Kantof for a composition entitled "The Haunted House." Against the background of an early American cottage interior looms a dark shadow, through the shadow are dozens of little cottages. Chicagoans were puzzled.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chicago's Prizes | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

When Orin comes home a struggle between the two Mannon women waxes bitter. Orin is not a little attached to his mother, Oedipus-wise. He never liked his father. But when Lavinia makes him track down their mother's rendezvous with Brant on his ship, Orin's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Greece in New England | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

Four middle-aged spinsters lived in a gloomy house; one locked room was haunted. To this unlikely refuge came Katherine, an unwanted sister-in-law, with her baby daughter Mary, because she had nowhere else to go. Phoebe, taciturn bully of the household, hated Katherine because she could not bully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jamesian Ghosts | 10/12/1931 | See Source »

Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 11, 1931 | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

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