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...MARCH OF TIME was at the last moment advanced another half hour (too late to correct the advertisement) when a shift of other radio programs on the NBC Blue Network made available an earlier period (8:30 p.m. E. S. T.). To Reader Nicely and others who came in for the tail-end of its first broadcast over NBC, the MARCH OF TIME extends an invitation henceforth to listen in every Thursday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated and feared that atheist inventor. In Louisiana an Elson Reader was banned because of this Mother Goose couplet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Textbooks | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...outstanding characteristic of the book might be said to be its factual presentation of material. The author does not ask or expect his readers to accept any of his theories without proof. He presents us with the facts which resulted from his experiments. The book is accompanied by a set of cards used at Duke University and the reader may conduct the same tests with subjects...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: NEW FRONTIERS OF THE MIND, by J. R. Rhine, New York, Farrar and Rinehari, 274 pages. Price $2.50. | 10/30/1937 | See Source »

Providing an excellent handbook of American and English short story, as well as a priceless volume for the traveler, Edward J. O'Brien's recently published collection entitled. "The Best Short Stories of 1937" is a book of unlimited appeal merely because every reader no matter how fastidious he is in his choice of lighter reading may find within its covers several stories which satisfy his tastes...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

...other information regarding the short story field. The book is an annual publication of Houghton and Mifflin which serves among other things to introduce many hitherto unknown writers. Many of the authors have restricted their works to less widely known periodicals which are not available to the average reader...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Crimson Bookshelf | 10/28/1937 | See Source »

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