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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birthday. Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium; in Manhattan. Age: 62. She celebrated by: 1) Receiving callers at the home of her longtime friend Mrs. William Brown Meloney, editor of the Sunday magazine section of the New'York Herald Tribune. Daniel Guggenheim and Nicholas Frederic Brady sent flowers. 2) Inspecting John Pierpont Morgan's famed library. 3) Dining with her great & good friends, the Owen D. Youngs. Next day she sailed for home on the lie de France with Rubberman Harvey Samuel Firestone, Archbishop Nicholas of Serbia, Publisher George Palmer Putnam and Cinemactresses Pola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...plumped into Byng of Vimy. He, deftly sidestepping, punctiliously bowed to irrepressible "Baby Betty," Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, only granddaughter and unspoiled darling of George V. When His Majesty followed the babe it was seen at once that he did look younger. His cheeks were a breeze-tanned brown. Faultlessly groomed, firm of step and with a new vitality of movement, the King-Emperor escorted Queen Mary to the waiting royal Daimler. Already Baby Betty had plumped into the back seat. "Come along, Ganpa!" piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Come along, Ganpa! | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

Singing came into line naturally then; Robeson's voice had always been splendidly full and smooth, contributing immeasurably to the power of his speaking performances. In 1925, with Negro Pianist Lawrence Brown, he gave his first recital of spirituals-another success. Soon after he went abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Robeson's Return | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

...looked to spectators like a twisted ankle in his Yale game, he had really hurt his back, was out for the season. Copying his injured friend's high-kneeing stride. Bill Morton showed that there is more than one way to get a bear by the tail. Dartmouth 13, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Nov. 18, 1929 | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

East: Harvard v. Yale at Cambridge; N. Y. U. v. Rutgers at New York; Army v. Ohio Wesleyan at West Point; Navy v. West Virginia Wesleyan at Annapolis; Fordham v. Bucknell at New York; Brown v. New Hampshire at Providence; Lehigh v. Lafayette at Bethlehem; Villa Nova v. North Carolina State at Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMING,GOING | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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