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Romain Rolland wrote an epic about an individual (Jean Christophe); John Galsworthy wrote one about a family (The Forsyte Saga); but Jules Romains' magnum opus will seek comparison with an earlier, more comprehensive epic: La Comedie Humaine of Honoré de Balzac. No mere tetralogy, its author himself does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frenchmen | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

Sirs: For the first time you make me really mad. You certainly know nothing of veterinary medicine as I have noted before, but your description of "nicking" is a crime (TIME, May 1). If it were an "excruciatingly painful" process no decent veterinarian-and many of us are decent -would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1933 | 5/15/1933 | See Source »

The University learned recently of the promotion of Major Apted '06, to a colonelcy in the Yard Cop Force. We were very proud that the authorities should so signally commend him, and trust that he received an increase in salary befitting his now dignity. Perhaps for selfish reasons, I feel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fairy Tales | 5/4/1933 | See Source »

"The truth is, we don't like the term jazz". It always signifies something more or loss crude. Ours is a certain type of American music that has caught the spirit of the music-loving world. Look at Olsen, Lombardo, Bernie--even in Europe--Paris, Berlin, London--this new American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Saxophone-ish, Wailing Jazz Being Displaced By New American Music, Now That Beer Is Here, Says Ben Bernie | 4/20/1933 | See Source »

"For 20 years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Runt Relief | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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