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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation's style of tame, facile humor, in which the cheerful shades of the great pseudophilosophized and gagged politely (sample: Wellington pulls a campstool from under Napoleon). His House Boat on the Styx became a best-seller and was credited with having relieved the U.S. reading public of its fear of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Period Wit | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Nutcracker Suite. 8:30 Musical Quiz Show, with Bill Ernst '41, Newbold Landon '42, Ben Hazard '42, and Lyman Snow '42. 9:00 Nine O'Clock Jump. 9:30 A Case for Non-Intervention: Jordan M. Whitelaw '42. 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall": Gluck: Alcest Overture and "Divinites du Styx." Wagner: Tanuhauser, "Dick Teure Balle." Brahma: Symphony No. 4. 10:45 News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 2/7/1941 | See Source »

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