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...least 29? for 2, and some of us conscientious objectors would be spared the necessity of buying a 10? (untaxed) substitute. If this august State protested, we might appeal, and get a Supreme Court ruling-maybe even an historic 5-to-4 one, on the taxability of that ½?. Hell's Bells! as long as you don't charge it they can't tax it. Now, I mean this in dead seriousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1937 | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...cluck-clucked a lot at "crazy quilt," Cubist paintings. Yet, after reading one paragraph of TIME'S Art article, dumb as I am, I began to understand what such painters are driving at. With TIME'S permission, I'd like to "get hot, get arty as Hell," and ram a few of my thoughts down Sullivan's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

...unofficial speed of 309 m.p.h. (TIME, Nov. 8), it was expected that soon the 301 m.p.h. official world record would fall. Last week it did. Captain Eyston guided his 6-wheeled, 7-ton contraption over the same course to an official 311.42 m.p.h. Said he: "It was a hell of a run and I don't mean that profanely." During his second lap, on which he averaged 317 m.p.h. his goggles came loose and he had to adjust them while he drove with one hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Records, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Premier Duplessis to unlock La Clarte's front door, whereupon Editor Peron can repeat La Clarté's, jibe, "the Province of Quebec is a paradise for capitalists and a hell for workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Light Locked | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...Professor William Strunk Jr. from William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Rivers, Inc.). Last summer 35-year-old Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Alabama-born daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives, married Actor John Emery and announced that she was "going to New York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching veteran Conway Tearle play Antony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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