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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well known nationally as the Constitution, the Journal has a bigger name in Georgia. Last year, with 97,850 circulation, it had passed the Constitution (91,007), was Atlanta's biggest newspaper. It ranked third in the South, after the Memphis Commercial Appeal (124,010) and the New Orleans Times-Picayune (109,825), almost lived up to its slogan: "The Journal Covers Dixie Like the Dew." Atlanta newsmen used to wisecrack: "Yeah, it's all wet!" For the Journal had grown fat and stodgy; its editorial stand was typified by an annual piece called March Comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Big Deal in Georgia | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Prince Alexis Obolensky II, 25, Manhattan cafe socialite, Russian nobleman once removed, and Princess Obolensky (Jane Wheeler Irby), 23, New Orleans socialite: their first child, a daughter; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Name: Ann. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Marshall, Mo., letters deluged a 52-year-old plumber and minister. His full name: Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Chillicothe, Ohio, Mrs. Harry McNeal bent over to dry herself after a bath, backed into a heater named "Good Luck," branded herself with the name reversed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Mobilized at the beginning of the war, French Novelist Philippe Heriat found himself on duty guarding the Goncourt subway station in Paris. Fortnight ago, the name took on a new meaning for Novelist Heriat. He won the Goncourt Prize (5,000 francs), France's highest annual award for fiction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goncourt | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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