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...eloped from Mt. Holyoke College), an adopted younger daughter Virginia whom they call "Ginnie." Carefully reared, she does not smoke. Her presentation at Court was arranged as a "surprise," Mrs. Dawes keeping the secret for weeks. When told, Ginnie became "quite excited." She went to Roycemore School in Evanston, Ill., now attends Broadstairs in Kent, will go next year to a school in Paris. Frank, impulsive, vivacious, she is a pronounced brunette, eyes almost black, sparkling. With horse or tennis ball she is tolerably adept. Friendly, she is a firm friend of eloped brother Dana, no blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Courts Royal | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...Paderewski's last three U. S. appearances were the high spots of three spring festivals: in Ann Arbor, Mich., Evanston, 111., Westchester County, N. Y.* It was the Westchester engagement that made him late for S.S. Paris. Just previously he had surprised people by announcing that he would return for four months next year. In his season's valedictory he said: "This country is experiencing a gratifying cultural development manifested in the increased attendance of young persons at concerts. . . . There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Paderewski Sails | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Michigan and Illinois have been winning the Western Conference track & field championships since 1917. There seemed no reason to believe that Michigan would not win again at Evanston last week. Illinois' ace hurdler, Lee Sentman, was likely to be beaten by Jack Keller of Ohio State; Michigan had Eddie Tolan, who holds the official world's record for the 100-yard dash, and a crack one-mile relay team. In the first events, run off on a raw dark afternoon. Michigan piled up what looked like a safe lead till Sentman, equaling the world's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Evanston | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...spring, after important artists finish their opera and concert engagements, before the citizenry starts vacationing. Festivals have been given already this spring in Washington, D. C., Emporia, Kans., Harrisburg, Pa., Manhattan's Greenwich Village, Hamilton, Ontario, and Halifax. May festivals are scheduled for Bethlehem, Pa., Ann Arbor, Evanston, Rochester, N. Y., Keene, N. H., White Plains, N. Y. This spring, looming above these is the 29th biennial Festival given last week in Cincinnati...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Festival | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...From Evanston, Ill., husky Wade ("Red") Woodworth had motored all the last two nights to get to Albany in time, towing his racing boat on a trailer. He had spent another night fitting out his boat-had only two hours sleep between Tuesday and Friday. Now he partly knelt, partly sat on the cushions in his bucking little ship, his red hair standing up in a crest, watching the curves of the narrow upper river between its marshy banks. Fourteenth at the start, he soon was racing for the lead with Ben Rhymer who lives beside the Hudson at Kingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Albany to New York | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

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