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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, bruised and disheveled, the chauffeurs discovered each other's identity, they hustled the boys out of the crowd onto a train to Stamford, brought them back to New York by the next train. In her East 69th Street house Mrs. Roosevelt grimly sent the boys supperless to bed -on separate floors. To newsmen Mrs. Roosevelt and Mr. Distler explained that the escapade was merely "an ill-advised prank." that their chief worry was whether the boys would be readmitted to Groton. Said the parents: "They really love the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Groton Break | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Calm, blue-eyed Playwright Clifford Henshaw Goldsmith is 38, was born in East Aurora, N. Y. where his shirts hung on the same clothesline as Roycrofter Elbert Hubbard's, now lives in a secluded farmhouse near Paoli, Pa. After a tiny role in Lightnin' and a start in cinema cut short when he tumbled down some false stairs and upset three cameras. Goldsmith joined a chautauqua. found himself while pinch-hitting for a humorous health lecturer, became a health lecturer on his own, talked on nutrition before hundreds of high schools. He pieced What a Life together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

...crocodile anything red and biteable is edible meat. Consequently, when Imperial Airways Ltd. began installing big, red, rubber buoys at stations in the Sudan and British East Africa (Malakal, Kampala, Kisumu) to moor their flying boats, crocodiles went for the buoys with enthusiasm, punctured and sank them. Last week, Imperial's engineers in London completed designs for a crocodile-proof buoy-a strong steel cylinder buffered with a semipneumatic fender impervious to tropic teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Tropic Teeth | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Sporting a new hat (see cut), Cinemactress Mae West arrived in Manhattan for a series of personal appearances in the East. Said she: "Don't let this halo hat deceive you, boys. I just wear it crossing State lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 25, 1938 | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

Nearly half of the 45 canvases exhibited at the Witney were from the Cincinnati Art Museum and most have not in 60 years been seen in the east. All but two were from Duveneck's best period, the 1870s and 1880s. During those years Duveneck was a famous expatriate with one of the largest followings among young painters that any U.S. artist has ever had. A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals. In such paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. Hals | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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