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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nuffield will be remembered when many a belted earl and many a British statesman are forgotten dust, Mayfair has been too inclined to dismiss his magnificent philanthropies as vulgar show of wealth. Last week, however, aristocrats could read in the Sunday Express about something they appreciated, Viscount Nuffield's ancestors...
...episodes (each announced by old-fashioned subtitles) parade across the screen the high lights of 26 years (1844-1870) : the panting enthusiasm of the gold rush, mushrooming San Francisco, the lickety-split pony express, the careening overland stages, the Civil War's venomous fratricide, Reconstruction's remorseful hangover...
...national No. 1. But not until the Depression loosed the public purse strings for work-making public works was there real accomplishment. Open for business 24 hours a day last month were five and one-half more miles-from 72nd Street to the George Washington Bridge-of the peripheral express highway which will someday ring Manhattan, vastly relieve the pressure of internal and through motor traffic (see map). Open for business last week was another important gateway to the teeming city-the brand-new Lincoln Tunnel nosing under the Hudson River at the west end of 39th Street...
...usefulness. Until last week, through traffic on U. S. No. 1 had the choice of using tedious ferries, the George Washington Bridge or the Holland Tunnel. The Holland Tunnel route is not so speedy as the bridge route. It will now be even quicker to use the East Side express highway & the Lincoln Tunnel than to use the bridge & U. S. No. 1 on the Jersey side. This may take some revenue away from the Holland Tunnel and the bridge, only completed in 1931. but the Port of New York Authority runs them all. is competing only with itself...
Mime Enters is only chilled by what is commonly known as "interpretive dancing." One thing that prompted her to write about her own work was the feeling that "this Pure Dance had been getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in painting and pantomime came after she saw the outbreak of the Spanish revolution last year. Back in the U. S. she found herself writing magazine articles, speaking on the radio "as a person about persons," finally eager to speak, as a person, about herself...