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...applied for relief, she was refused on the ground that the family had enough money to send a son to college. At Ohio State, her son helps earn his way as a State House page. Christened James Cleveland Owens, he became Jesse when a teacher at Cleveland's Fairmount Junior High School to whom he gave his initials mistook them for his first name. He was too shy to correct her. Before he left high school he had won the U.S. broad-jump title, run 100 yd. in 9.4 sec. The 100-yd. world record, set by Southern California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Farthest & Fastest | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

Municipal University of Wichita was organized as Fairmount Institute in 1892, taken over by the city in 1926. It has a rolling, 80-acre campus on the city's edge, some 2,000 students enrolled in colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration & Industry, Education, Fine & Applied Arts, Aeronautics. Most famed is its Omnibus College which each summer takes 700 students on a camping-out bus ride over the U. S. and Canada, with courses and credits on the go (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jardine to Wichita | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

Last week brought the opening of Philadelphia Orchestra's fourth outdoor season before the biggest crowd since its 1930 premiere in the natural auditorium in a nook of Fairmount Park called Robin Hood Dell. The crowd acclaimed Conductor Alexander Smallens, stood up politely while his men played "The Star Spangled Banner," then sat down to listen, with mounting enthusiasm, to the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, Prelude a I'Apres- Midi d'un Faune, Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Brahms's C Minor Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Open-Air Music (Cont'd) | 7/17/1933 | See Source »

...address is No. 633 Fairmount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...that Diana was lost to them. While the N. Y. U. building fund languished, acquisitive Director Fiske Kimball of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art, cash in hand, had won the New York Life's permission to take the lady to Philadelphia, set her up on a tower in Fairmount Park. At least one Philadelphian was not ready to welcome the "Lady Higher Up." Rev. Mary Hubbert Ellis, pastor of the Primitive Methodist Church, had heard that the Lady was nude. "We are going to have a meeting next Wednesday," said Primitive Methodist Ellis, "to take up complaints about obscene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lady Higher Up | 4/4/1932 | See Source »

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