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Will H. Hays, Movie Tsar, leased an apartment upon the highest sleeping floor, the 37th, of the 508-ft, 39-story-high Ritz Towers in Manhattan. His suite, containing only four rooms, spread itself over the entire floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...graduate (1911) of Union Theological School, Mr. Thomas used to assist at the Brick Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, Manhattan. Few strikes of any size in or near Manhattan, few free speech fights or Sacco-Vanzetti trials, are conducted without his assistance. In 1924 he was a candidate for Governor of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Convention | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...maid's games, golf, where you go around after a little ball and only give it a hit about every five minutes.* Where TIME lay down was in not printing some of the real sport news of the week. Why not tell how Babe Ruth socked his 37th, 38th and 39th and 40th homers? Why not write up some of the good fights ? How about the races? Maybe they wouldn't admit it but I bet you most of your readers would sooner bet on a horse race than watch a fat lot of old ladies "bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 5, 1927 | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, plays the best. Kauffman last week won the National Public Links Tournament, at the Ridgewood Club, Cleveland, defeating William Serrick, New York, in a match play. Kauffman lost the first three holes in the final, won them back and three more, lost the lead, and won on the 37th hole. His round was 77, the loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Self-made Golfers | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

...roosting his exaggerated frame upon a stool in a lunch room and gulping down two, four, half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen, three dozen, three dozen and one, and five, and ten-four dozen soft-boiled (2½ min.) hen's eggs, in 45 minutes. At the 37th egg he choked, gasped out, "That egg was rotten." As the 48th mingled with its predecessors, he unfolded himself, arose, collected a bet ($10) and the price of his orgy, paid the pop-eyed waitress, stalked through the crowd and made for his rooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Rat-Hole | 4/5/1926 | See Source »

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