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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shrewd rather than witty, this comedy of marriage succeeds in being entertaining because Edwin Burke, from whose play it was adapted, sensibly avoided the deeper implications of his subject. The idea of it is that married people get along better if they are not in love with each other. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

As an inspiration for cub reporters it was not, perhaps, the greatest newspaper story ever written. But cub reporters on the Telegram and all other Scripps-Howard newspapers read it with special attention because it had been dictated by the big boss himself, Roy W. Howard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Phoned In | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The crowds at billiard tournaments are never very big, but Rudolph and Greenleaf had another audience which followed their contest in newspapers and discussed it in doorways-the enormous and tremendously expert audience of U. S. pool players. Pocket billiards is another name for continuous pool. You play it on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Greenleaf v. Rudolph | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

The formidable Costes record: shot down 13 enemy fighters during the War; served conspicuously in other air branches -artillery fire regulation, reconnoitering, day & night bombardment; given the Legion of Honor after his sixth plane victory; made an officer of the Legion and voted the U. S. Distinguished Flying Cross (with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 30, 1929 | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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