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...boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stutz Solo | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Because Statesman & Scientist Benjamin Franklin won his fame in Phila- delphia, few but historians are prone to associate him with Boston. He was Boston-born Jan. 6, 1706, son of Josiah Franklin, a tallow chandler. Not until 1723, after he had written many an essay for his brother James's New England Courant, "first sensational newspaper in America," did Benjamin Franklin migrate to Philadelphia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Boston's Franklin | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

...certs, Metropolitan Opera, and other im portant musical events, summer sojourns here or in Europe on the advice of the faculty, financial assistance in setting out on professional careers. Last week Mrs. Bok revealed a further extension of activity. She announced that the Institute had affiliated with the Phila delphia Grand Opera Company to provide the city with opera the equal of Chicago's and Manhattan's. Emily Mlynarski, con ductor of the Warsaw Philharmonic and Opera, was named as director of both the Curtis Institute Orchestra and the Phila delphia Grand Opera, replacing Artur Rodzinski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia's Fortune | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

November 5--Pennsylvania at Phila delphia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOTERS MEET ALUMNI SENIOR ELEVEN | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

...Elizabeth Robins Pennell was a Phila delphia girl, born in 1855. Educated in a Paris convent and at Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.), she married Joseph Pennell in her 30th year. She is the author of a life of Mary Wollstonecraft and (with her hus band) of a life of Painter Whistler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Will | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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