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If you consider yourself intelligent and yet are a little ashamed of reading detective-stories, you may take courage from reflecting on the case of Authoress Dorothy Savers. One of the first women to take an Oxford degree (first-class honors in Medieval Literature), she was considered one of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old time Religion | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

¶ Following published reports that he had had a hand in the writing of the anonymous, gossipy book Washington Merry-Go-Round (TIME, Sept. 14), Robert S. Allen, able young chief of the Christian Science Monitor's bureau in Washington, was discharged without notice or interrogation after six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Odds & Ends: Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

A quarter-century ago, ladies developed an enthusiasm for huge, beplumed headgear called "Merry Widow" hats. Their daughters now go in for cranial fillips known as Empress Eugenie hats, but The-Merry Widow, whence came their moth- ers' mode, is still tuneful and gay. Perhaps it is even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Revival: Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Merry-Go-Round was born among a coterie of newsmen known as the Georgetown Group who gather periodically at each other's homes to discuss the state of public affairs. Liberals at heart, they are dissatisfied with the political times and Merry-Go-Round is the expression of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Merry-Go-Round | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Ulysses-- | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

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