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...Edward of Wales in a Provencal fisherman's wide cobalt blue trousers and short-sleeved white shirt with blue bars across the chest, turned up at Cannes dressed exactly like most other swanksters. One of H. R. H.'s entourage of six smoked a corncob pipe labeled "From Missouri." No. 1 Woman remained beauteous Baltimore-born Mrs. Ernest A. Simpson, wife of a complacent Briton (TIME, Sept. 24, March 11). Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson and H. R. H. were vexed by an absurd pamphlet purporting to have been written by her and titled What Charmed the Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Crown: Aug. 26, 1935 | 8/26/1935 | See Source »

Thompson's holdings were scattered from Cobalt Lake, Canada to Peru. They included Inspiration Mine in Arizona and Indian Motorcycle Co. He financed lead, zinc and coal mines, street railways, handled the sensational Midvale Steel financing during the War when the stock rose from 290 to 500. He refinanced American Woolen Co. and Tobacco Products Co., launched Cuban Cane Sugar Co., got control of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co., organized Submarine Boat Corp. and the Wright-Martin Aeroplane Co. Fat, good-natured, bald, a tireless worker, a devoted family man, Thompson chewed tobacco, underpaid his employes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disillusioned Millionaire | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...spoke to him was a rich, retired lawyer named David Alexander Dunlap who had made his money not at the bar but by grubstaking prospectors, acquiring shares in the pioneer mines of the Cobalt field. Dr. Chant's talk impressed David Dunlap profoundly. He spoke to his wife about his idea of giving the university an observatory with a powerful telescope. Not long afterward he died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No. 2 at Work | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...cups & saucers, not to mention oyster plates, oatmeal bowls, ramekins, etc.-1,720 pieces for $9,301.20, delivered at the White House. This, the first full dinner set ordered for the White House since Wilson's day, will be cream-colored Lenox china, with rims of gold, a cobalt blue band bearing 48 stars, roses and feathers (from the Roosevelt coat of arms), and the President's seal on the rim. Delivery is promised in time for the Cabinet dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Southern Hospitality | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

Neither the hoariest monkey nor the most venerable boa constrictor on the jungle shores of Gatun Lake had seen such a sight as took place on that cobalt body of water last week. For 48 hr. a file of warships in pairs, by the dozen, by the score streamed steadily westward through the Panama Canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: March Across Panama | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

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