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When TIME'S correspondent interviewed Senator Reynolds for the express purpose of confirming the story that he smokes Camels, the Senator's first act was to produce a handful of Camels (which he carried loose in his pocket), give one to the correspondent, light one himself. TIME is glad to record Senator Reynolds' assurance that he majors in Luckies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...workmen. Not only did they fail to correspond to anti-Nazi descriptions of how in Nazi-land most people are painfully tightening their belts, but in London most comfortable Bloomsbury board with all expenses paid was provided for these Nazis by their Embassy and each man additionally received as "pocket money" about as much as the weekly wage of an average English carpenter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ambassador No. 1 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Woolly-headed Fatty Pfaff, in Arrowsmith, set out for his medical examination with a set of notes in his pocket, not to peek at but in the hope that their contents might soak through his skin. Last week was in many a U. S. college the week of midyear examinations and woolly-headed students were glad to get any kind of last-minute cramming advice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Crammers | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

With the script of Hard Pan in his pocket, Dress Manufacturer Polisuk next approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Polisuk v. Kaufman | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

ZEST FOR LIFE-Johan W011er-Knopf ($2.50). Sumatra again, as remembered by an esthetic Dane, who, 30 years ago, a copy of Keats's poems in his pocket, participated in the last of the native wars which from 1872 cost the Dutch forces over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 1, 1937 | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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