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...twelve years, Pan American Airways Corp. has had a U. S. monopoly on intercontinental air transportation. Its huge Sikorskys, Boeings, Martins and Douglases have flashed through skies clear of competition, except for three or four weaker foreign-owned airlines. An aerial trail blazer, Pan Am has nosed southward into South America; westward to Hawaii, China, Australia, New Zealand; eastward to Europe. With few rivals, Pan Am could take its time pathfinding, make sure its explorations would pay. It has made money since 1931, $1,984,000 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pan Am. v. Export | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...even the most optimistic signatories of the open letter held out little hope of seeing handsome Baron von Cramm. in his customary flannels and gay-striped blazer, step out on the international tennis courts this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Demand | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

With a final tug at his crimson blazer the usher philosophized about his job "You get so you can handle people You team to speak to all kinds of people in a business capacity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ushering at University Theatre No Sinecure According to Staff Member | 1/19/1937 | See Source »

...Geneva last week the Clark Gable of the League, romantic in his open-throated tennis shirt and Eton blazer at tea time, remained Captain Anthony Eden. This handsome young British Minister for League of Nations Affairs has been expertly cast by His Majesty's Government to play a role of popular idealism, Empire unselfishness and British solicitude for the Negro underdog. Last week "Mr. Eden," as the League's spruce Captain insists on being called, kept the Committee of Thirteen, the Committee of Six and all the other League organs created to deal with Italy & Ethiopia busy heading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE: The Deal | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...lives amid beautiful women. Rich ones sit to him for their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boulevardier | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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