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Covering modeling, theatre, and nightclub jobs as possibilities for girls who are beautiful; publishing, advertising and department-store jobs for girls who are brainy; and social work, education, office work and odds & ends for others, Author Leaf finds these fields all overcrowded. Models get $5 or $10 for a sitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Girls' World | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

All the Living (adapted by Hardie Albright from the book, I Knew 3,000 Lunatics, by Dr. Victor R. Small; produced by Cheryl Crawford). The theatre, having investigated slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

Higher Learning. Most newsworthy speech on the superintendent's formal program was made by Harvard's youthful President James Bryant Conant. Observing that the number of students in U. S. professional schools might well be reduced, President Conant challenged the view that students are better off if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Church & State | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Last week the story of Poetry was meticulously told in Harriet Monroe's posthumous autobiography (she died Sept. 26, 1936). Although that story was the climax of her career, it made up the dullest chapters of her book. Long (488 pages), overcrowded with the names of poets, A Poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Chicago Poetry | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Although varying in approach, all these jobs aim to give the student first hand knowledge of our growing social problems. From the College Summer Service Group in New York comes the announcement of a project providing thirty-five hours a week of work in the city's overcrowded, but little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY TO WORK IN NEW YORK SLUMS AND COUNTRY GIVEN BY P.B.H. | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

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