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...store" or into town, and not much to do when they get there. Even in the southern counties, winds blow chill across the fields. At a crossroad store ("GROCERIES, HARDWARE & GEN'L MERCHANDISE"), the stove is hot, the air laden with the smells of harness leather, coal oil, turpentine, of bodies white and black, of cheese, sardines, tobacco juice, tobacco smoke, Garrett's snuff. A man can always find company at the store, sitting and talking, drinking soda pop, maybe just sitting. In the back of the store or off to one side are Negroes, talking low, speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Store | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Parliament convened last week after the holidays, greying Marcel Cachin, Communist Senator, decided not to risk going to Paris, lay snug at his villa in Brittany, and his only other Communist colleague also stayed home. Barrel-chested, leather-lunged Maurice Thorez, French Communist Party leader, had to keep quiet-he was A.W.O.L. from the Army. In famed Sante Prison sat many of the 72 French Communist Deputies, arrested after the Party was outlawed (TIME, Oct. 23), one by one on charges of this or that "illegal activity." But seven Communist Deputies who were serving in the Army (where their activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Seven Minus Four | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Gene Autry is no stranger to radio. He twanged his first radio ballad over KVOO in Tulsa in 1928, for nothing. Hollywood tapped him in 1934 to start a movie career that no other hell-for-leather guitar plunker has ever equaled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Double Mint Ranch | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...sheer power of pantomime dominates the scenes in which he has almost nothing to say or do; 2) colored Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel, who comes from Kansas, had to be taught to speak thick Georgian, turns in the most finished acting job of the picture as Mammy, the sly, leather-lunged, devoted Emily Post of the O'Haras. And Vivien Leigh had not petted and pouted on the screen for five minutes before the fussy Atlanta audience was ready to underwrite Selznick's choice of the little-known English actress to be the Southern belle. Whether she spoke letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Stretchable patent leather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Marvels | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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