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Long familiar to Cape Cod residents has been the sight of Harvard's white-haired little President Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell careening over the roads at the wheel of his high-sided old black sedan. In 1932 he was haled into court for driving on the wrong side of the road, got off scot-free. Recently frosty old Dr. Lowell, nearing 80, applied for a renewal of his driver's license, was obliged to take an examination under a new Massachusetts ruling requiring operators of 65 or more to pass a rigid test. Last week at Hyannis, Examiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

...sketches and paints in near-professional manner but has not lost his amateur standing as an artist. He writes wherever he happens to be, finds crowded Provincetown on Cape Cod as good a place to work as any. There in his harborside cottage he lives between travels, with his handsome wife. (She writes for women's magazines under the name of Katherine Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Private Historian | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...Pacific States were dull. Undistinguished were pictures of San Francisco Bay, cod fishermen, miners, deserts and the Rock Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: First National | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...prevent colds as many manufacturers of candies and drugs claim. The only effect Vitamin A has on colds is to increase secretions from mucous membranes of nose and throat. Those secretions kill invading germs, may prevent a cold, if germs actually cause colds. His advice was not to drink cod-liver oil, in which Vitamin A is usually sold, as a cold-preventive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamin Debunker | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...production is staged by John Cecil Haggott '35 who has been associated with Richard Whorf at the Beach Theatre on Cape Cod and was a former president of the Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifty-First Dramatic Club Production Opens Tonight | 12/11/1935 | See Source »

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