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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fathered one of St. Louis' most popular debutantes (Daughter Carol, now married to a son of Missouri's late Governor Gardner) and the Nation's first flashy cheap automobiles (Moon, Diana). After divorce and Depression, Mr. McDonald went to Manhattan with motor-making, speculating William Crapo Durant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Repose | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

...eleven years that followed. Editor Long made a great success. Explaining "All I know is what I like," he nevertheless showed an uncanny eye for the weather of public preference. When the public wanted Westerns, he gave it Curwood & Kyne. When it wanted Knowledge, he gave it Will Durant. When it wanted Russians, he gave it Russians. Prodigally sowing Big Names and New Names with talent in his slick and shiny monthly, Editor Long reaped a 1,700,000 circulation harvest in 1929. That was the year he printed perhaps his greatest coup: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Peak Passed | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...ORIENTAL HERITAGE?Will Durant ?Simon & Schuster ($5). A 1,000-page history of the Orient, with expositions of its religious beliefs and descriptions of its art; the first part of a history of civilization which is to run to five volumes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Jul. 15, 1935 | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...Clark; H. vanB. Cleveland; E. R. Coburn; R. C. Cochrane, Jr.; L. A. Collins; J. L. Coombs; S. P. Cotton; E. H. Cox; Sylvester Cunningham; S. M. Dall; J. L. Dampeer; J. K. Davis; H. G. Deane; J. K. P. de Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich Durant, Jr.; J. R. Egan; W. A. Evans; Thomas Fuller; H. L. Furse; R. I. Gale; T. F. Geraghty; John Gilroy; P. M. Glendinning; W. T. Glendinning; Prentiss Godfrey; G. H. Gregg; D. R. Griffin; H. B. Grisweld; A. H. Hall; Leonard Hammer; J. G. Harder; John Hay; Bernard Helfat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Applicants Admitted to Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell House Listed--Last of Seven House Lists | 6/12/1935 | See Source »

Following is the text of the report on the Freshman Year which the Freshman Confidential Guide submitted to Dean Leighton yesterday. It was drawn up under the chairmanship of Francis Keppel by Messrs. Allen, Dampeer, Dow, Durant, Graham, Hay, Levine, Shahan, and Vogt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of Freshman Committee's Report Which Suggests Many Improvements to Help First Year Men Through Critical Period | 5/17/1935 | See Source »

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