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Professor Lynd does not pretend to have the blueprint in his own pocket, but he claims to know most of the questions and how to find the answers that would supply the blueprint's general plan. To start social scientists hunting for more meaningful answers, he proposed some "outrageous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: KNOWLEDGE FOR WHAT? | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

And don't believe that Louis has forgotten how to play the marvelous horn he used to, that he no longer does anything but blow high C's; the reason for this misapprehension is that in general Louis isn't playing as great jazz as he was ten years ago...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

The Flying Irishman (RKO Radio) is primarily an attempt to cash in at the box office the fame achieved by Aviator Douglas Corrigan in his famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 27, 1939 | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

With new 41-ton Boeing 314s about ready to be put in service on the trans-Pacific run, Pan American Airways will need lots of passengers to fill the seats of these 74-passenger flying boats. Last week it set out to get them. Its action: fare cuts of 20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: After Business | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

This week the longest (328 pages) English-language biography of Physicist Albert Einstein, now the most distinguished resident of Princeton, N. J., was published by H. Gordon Garbedian, a science writer on the staff of the New York Times.* Brightest spots in Mr. Garbedian's book are the Einstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ja, Do Not Worry! | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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