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Exceptions occur when politics butts in: the 39th season of Portland's Tuesday Afternoon Club started badly this year when Mrs. Edward Pelton's review of America's Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...
...peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week was another important gateway to the teeming city-the brand-new Lincoln Tunnel nosing under the Hudson River at the west end of 39th Street...
...exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th and 39th floors of the International Building in Rockefeller Center, could claim such celebrities as Fannie Hurst, Emil Ludwig and Pearl Buck. The Boston Fair had H. G. Wells as lead-off man, with Robert Frost...
...life insurance company) $10,000,000 in ten-year, 3% debentures. To start, the famed Woolworth Store No. 1,000, on Fifth Avenue at 40th Street, Manhattan will be abandoned in favor of a 5½-story, air-conditioned, granite and steel store now abuilding on Fifth Avenue at 39th Street. Ranking with the abandonment of price limit and the borrowing of new capital as a sign of the times, is the fact that this new store will not have even the famed red-banded front...