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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Exposition offers no French motor cars, but at 15,000 francs or $560 was offered last week the two-cylinder 32 h. p. Taupin monoseater sport plane, built for safe piloting by amateurs and said to be capable of landing at a speed of only 12½ m. p. h. Slightly larger French sport planes, carrying two, yet also geared to private purchasers in the lowest price class are offered at $900 with a ceiling of 18,000 feet, cruising speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Success! | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...warmly welcomed by the nation's press, for 1937 has been a dull year for monsters. Preliminary indications were that Newport's might be the monster-of-the-year. Twelve reputable citizens bore out Discoverers Bateman and Wyatt. Farmer Bateman and the Newport chamber of commerce built a fence around the viewing spot, charged 25? admission. Signs were tacked up on all roads-"This Way to the White River Monster." The story skyrocketed when the chamber of commerce announced that Charles B. Brown, a diver from Memphis, had been hired to investigate at the spot the monster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Newport's Monster | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Although President Davis will head a new operating company formed to run the school, Widow Ament will retain control of National Park Seminary Co. which owns its "physical properties." These comprise a woodsy 200-acre campus with 44 buildings, including eight resident clubhouses built in the style of various nations. The English has a drawbridge, the Chinese resembles a pagoda. Other National Park wonders are a ballroom with 24 balconies, acres of antique furniture purchased by Dr. Ament during his travels, a Negro kitchen staff which appears on a balcony over the dining room to sing spirituals during meals. National...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: National Park to Davis | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Boycotting last week's auction were the Roman Catholic Brothers of the Christian Schools who have owned and run St. Mary's since 1868. Boycotting it also was St. Mary's chief ornament, wiry Football Coach Edward Patrick ("Slip") Madigan whose Galloping Gaels built their college's fortunes. When Slip Madigan went to St. Mary's from Notre Dame in 1921, the college was as puny as its football team, which had just been overwhelmed by the University of California 127-to-0. From 1924 to last year St. Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: St. Mary's Auction | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...socialite and philanthropist; of a heart attack while shopping; in Paris. Mrs. Rice was Eleanor Elkins of Philadelphia, daughter of Oilman William L. Elkins. She married Philadelphia's George Widener. After he and their son Harry Elkins Widener drowned with the Titanic and she was rescued, she built the $2,000,000 Memorial Widener Library at Harvard. In 1915 she married Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice, wealthy surgeon-explorer, thereafter accompanied him on his South American explorations. Equally famed were her $1,000,000 rope of pearls, a Christmas present from her first husband in 1909, her Newport mansion, "Miramar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

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