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...Highlight of the evening came when a representative of the John Reed Society, collecting funds for the Loyalists, urged the audience of 700 to "skip a date for democracy." He collected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Browder Hopes Franco Will Find Route into Ambulance | 6/4/1937 | See Source »

...Highlight of the captain's combats is the one with the tigershark, photographed with a man-eater which appears to be dead. But the spirit of engaging fakery animating Killers of the Sea has a happier embodiment in the octopus sequence. This time ''the man of steel" rescues his buddy, a diver, bogged down by a devilfish, his airline severed by a turtle's bite. Caswell swims down several fathoms and dispatches the devilfish, slitting its ink sac with one blow of his trusty fish knife. Lowell Thomas explains that the captain's baldness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 17, 1937 | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Highlight of Saturday's meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at In dianapolis was a speech made by Walter Lippmann '10, Overseer and noted columnist, in which he criticized the present administration for encouraging the spirit of class warfare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lippmann, Before Associated Harvard Clubs, Hits Roosevelt's Class Warfare; New Officers Elected | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

...Beneath the Skin", now in the throes of rehearsal, promises more interesting moments than that organization has presented to its theatre-going public in many moons. Featuring speed, sex, and savoir-faire, and with the dancing chorus of Nineveh Girls, consisting of choice Vincent-Clubbers, as a definite highlight, the production is scheduled for exhibition on Friday and Saturday evenings, May 7 and 8, at the Copley Theatre in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club Enrolls Help of Four Female Institutions in Spring Show | 4/22/1937 | See Source »

...highlight of the whole exhibit is several rare editions of the "Compleat Angler", by one Izsak Walton. This 17th century writer had much to do with making fishing a sport rather than an the occupation, and as such he has become the father of a movement which in the spring of the year lures thousands to cast and dream of pairoueaint Walton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Widener, Host to History of Angling Art, Lures Would-Be Fishermen to Display of Waltonisms | 4/17/1937 | See Source »

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