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...could not have been so angry. Made out of material as old as show business and as tricky as cobwebs, My Man Godfrey emerges with that evasive quality that is not skillful playing, writing or direction, but something that mysteriously adds itself to these things, and makes a tip-top picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Vaulter Varoff, however, had no monopoly on record-breaking. In tip-top shape for the final Olympic tryout this week, and running on perhaps the fastest track in the U. S., six other stars made mincemeat of existing times. Outstanding performers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Records at Princeton | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...Haselwood, 44. started out as a Northwest farmer and lumberjack, bought a Ford in 1916, put it in tip-top shape, ran a one-man, one-car busline. After two years he sold out, drove for a half-dozen bus companies. Since 1929 he has driven for Omaha's Interstate Transit Lines, now makes the 21g-mile run between North Platte. Neb. and Cheyenne. Wyo.. one way or the other, six days a week. When passing an oncoming car he sights the road edge over his radiator cap. gets his right-hand tires on the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bumpless Busser | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

Another Crimson hopeful is Henry Fitts in the dive, who is now totally recovered from his accident at Columbia last week and should be all set to give a tip-top performance tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUTTER LEADS MERMEN AT INTERCOLLEGIATES | 3/27/1936 | See Source »

...Hasty Pudding's 1936 production, is rapidly taking on a definite semblance to a tip-top musical comedy. Director Bill Holbrook has been rehearsing his choruses for three hours every night since the show started, and a marked improvement can be seen in both the routine members and in the singing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HASTY PUDDING SHOW NEARING COMPLETION | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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