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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another super-marathoner, 50-year-old Clarence DeMar, felt the same way last week. Seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon, DeMar, who finished 30th last week, had a "Situations Wanted" ad in a Boston newspaper the day of the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Brave Victory | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...William Tudor Gardiner, twice Governor of Maine and now head of Boston's Incorporated Investors, raised Nathaniel Drummond ("Nat") Moore to the presidency of his $10,000,000 Pacific Coast Co. (railroads, steamships, mines, cement factories), succeeding Thomas Arthur Davies, who resigned to handle personal interests. Grey-haired Nat Moore has worked for Pacific Coast for 40 years, knows his 1,000 employes by their first names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: New Presidents | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...less than three letters threatening him with death and worse if he did not withdraw the book from circulation; 2) got published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Boston Society of Water Color Painters is presenting pictures by contemporary and late 19th century artists which will be exhibited in the Museum of Fine Arts until May 14. This collection, containing more than 400 separate pieces, is a sparkling example of the varied and divergent possibilities of the water-color medium. There are so many high-points of artistic value, so many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard Jayvees trounced Boston University 9-0, while the Dartmouth Freshman beat the Harvard yearlings 5-4 Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dartmouth Racquetmen Beat Harvard 5-4 in Close Match | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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