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Under Cinema, TIME, Sept. 13, you state in a footnote that in Russian the adjective meaning "red" also means "pretty," hence the play on words in speaking of a "red girl" in the Communist sense. Whoever wrote that had better have a talk with Mr. Berlitz and brush up his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1937 | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

When parochial teachers of Rochester, N. Y. gathered for an annual conference, 800 priests and nuns heard a speech by Rev. Francis Peter LeBuffe, S. J., business manager of the able Jesuit weekly America. An expert at making points of dogma crystal clear, Father LeBuffe had a blackboard handy, covered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers & Lollypops | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

To just about everyone except Japanese apologists, the reasons why Japan acted when and as she did this year in China are three, and they are pikestaff plain: 1) Japan saw the U. S. adopt a Neutrality Act well-meaning but sufficiently cockeyed for experts to agree that its legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Cheering Section | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

Once hailed by Annie Besant as a "World Teacher" who had in him the same "Christ Force" as did Jesus, Krishnamurti has renounced Theosophy and in fact all systems, dogmas, labels, ties, organizations. Wandering continually about the world, he holds meetings for people who are interested in learning his mystic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Sarobia | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

"It is possible to escape from an enemy carrying a two-edged sword but not from the interference of a well-meaning woman." Such Wodehousian sentiments garbed in Confucian terms are the unmistakable trade-mark of Ernest Bramah (E. B. Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Confucian Wodehouse | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

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