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...parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Let's Pretend | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...probably the masculine ideal which . . . carries supreme strength and masculine ruggedness. . . ." Those heroes of the comic strips, Tarzan, Superman and Li'l Abner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Judging Mind By Body | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philippa's Day at the Fair | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...peak and most furious pitch of his book is reached in the life of Schlessing, a gross, uncontrollably brilliant Viennese financier, seducer, Superman, whose power is built on blackmail and near-diabolism. This story, like most others in the book, shows a virtuosity in action narrative that few detective story writers could match; its significance is that Schlessing, the tenth character, and The Pale One, the first, are the two spiritual poles of Jewry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Exile and Zion | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago Times' Lucas, all credit for a fine job of listening. But only Superman could out-listen CBS and Princeton, whose big Listening Post staffs are on the job as much as 19 hours a day, seven days a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1940 | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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