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Your description of Mr. Huxman as a "second-string politician" is not in accord with what we regard the true meaning of that term in this State. "Second-string" is defined by most dictionaries as something inferior or second rate, and the word "politician" is not exactly complimentary. Mr. Huxman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

These words could be read as meaning that the Cabinet are in a mood to shrug off some of Britain's most solemn treaty obligations. Before Europe could be shocked, however, Sir Samuel's entourage explained that the First Lord's words were an expression of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Nov. 23, 1936 | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Swedish Night | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

Aaron Kane was born on an island off Shelter Point, Cape Cod, a well-meaning, red-headed boy who grew up in the great days of clipper ships, was apprenticed to a sailmaker, ran away to sea, was shanghaied in Edinburgh, kicked and cuffed as a cabin boy back and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kicks and Cuffs | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

At the time of this writing there's a great array of fireworks and much merry-making over most of England. It's Guy Fawkes night. Fawkes you remember was the hapless man who in 1605 tried to blow up Parliament. I'm not sure whether this celebration is an...

Author: By Chris Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 11/21/1936 | See Source »

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