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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew the Atlantic in 1927, no one was more excited than a large lady who lives on Manhattan's Park Avenue and keeps a vast collection of aeronauticana. The Park Avenue lady proceeded to surround herself with Lindbergh portraits. She owns a cup & saucer used on the first Graf Zeppelin flight. Her name is Bella Landauer and she is the wife of Isidor Nathan Landauer who makes Sealpacker-chiefs. Last week at Manhattan's Old Print Shop Mrs. Landauer exhibited one of her prize possessions-a collection of aeronautical songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Airy Collector | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...default. He holds his rubber-faced racket with the tennis, not the penholder grip popular among his U. S. confreres. His best stroke is the backhand which he uses for nine out of ten returns. With his friend Sandor Glancz, Barna helped win for Hungary the Swaythling trophy, Davis Cup of ping-pongists, for which play will begin this week at the Wembley Swimming Pool in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Table Tennis | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Francis H. Glesson '34 of Newton was presented the Wingate Memorial Cup: Charles J. Nevin '34 of Caldwell, New Jersey, the Barrett Wendell Junior Trophy Bat; Paul deB. deGive '34 of Atlanta, Georgia, the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup; John Ware, Jr. '34 of Milton, the Angier Hockey Trophy; Thomas H. Choate '37 of Pleasantville, New York. The Bruce Finally Vanderveer Trophy in rowing; and Leonard P. Eliel '36, the Roger W. Cutler Crew Cup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COACH WELCOMED AT VARSITY CLUB DINER IN UNION | 2/1/1935 | See Source »

Awards for excellence in baseball, crew, and hockey will be given out at the dinner. The list of trophies to be awarded are as follows: in baseball, The Wingate Memorial Cup and the Barrett Wendell, Jr. Trophy; in crew, the Bruce Finlay Vanderveer Trophy; in hockey, the Angier Trophy and the John Tudor Memorial Hockey Cup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DINNER IN HONOR OF HARLOW TO BE HELD BY ATHLETES | 1/30/1935 | See Source »

...Columbia undergraduate is strongly perturbed. A cup of coffee in one hand and a library in his wake, he trundles dismally along the appointed orbit. And as he passes, the foul Eumenides tweak his dank locks. When he falls by the wayside they smear his gaunt frame with thick and amylaceous sepulchral ointments, gleefully telling his ribs as they ply their flendish task. Let us shudder and shamble onwards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/30/1935 | See Source »

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