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...volunteer for service at the front in World War I. He went through the war unscratched, was kept as a member of Germany's elite postwar General Staff. Almost as corpulent as Göring (from years spent sitting behind a desk at headquarters), Wedel has the same talent for organization. Like Göring, he drinks vast quantities of beer, eats gargantuan meals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Men of War | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

Married. Circusman John Ringling North, 36, president of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey; and French Cinemactress Germaine Aussey (Germaine Agassis), 30, whom he met while hunting talent in Europe last Christmas; in Philadelphia...

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

...apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated from his sawed-off polo stick, fans may think they recognize a gentle kidding of 20th Century-Fox's Po-loist-Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who is also headstrong, also inseparable from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...instructors were chosen especially for talent in verse, criticism, or belles-lettres. Each will have at least one section in English A and will be eligible for work in more advanced composition or other English courses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Writers to Fill New Instructorships | 5/17/1940 | See Source »

...sentimental soft spots than The Yearling, Author Rawlings' short stones deal with such Florida crackers as starvation-haunted farmers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, moonshiners. Readers of The Yearling know her sharp ear for dialect, her landscapist's feelings for the scrub country. Her short stories show an equal talent for high-spirited folk humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crackers Collected | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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