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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fair Harvard will surrender...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MILLENIUM | 6/2/1939 | See Source »

Visitors to the New York World's Fair:* Countess Barbara Mutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, Son Lance, Cousin Woolworth Donahue, who were soon scared away by gawking crowds; Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumanslcy; Jang Krishnan, one of four Borneo brothers who have six-inch tails; Herbert Hoover (said he: "There is no very explosive news about visiting an exposition."); John Pierpont Morgan, for the second time; Radioactor Orson Welles read the $1,000 World's Fair prize poem by 23-year-old Smith Graduate Pearl Levison. Sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Francisco's Golden Gate Fair: Norway's Crown Prince Olav, who slipped his tongue, extolled Los Angeles; Harold Lloyd; Walter Damrosch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Whose total attendance, 20 days after opening, passed San Francisco's Golden Gate Fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 29, 1939 | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...trumpets sounded a change as 55 P. E. N. delegates from 29 countries forgathered at the New York World's Fair last fortnight to hold their three-day World Congress of Writers. Quietly and peaceably the writers filed into the egg-shaped, modernistic Hall of Music. But once inside, they threw down their pens with a bang heard in Berlin, Rome and Burgos, declared war to the last drop of ink on Dictators Hitler, Mussolini and Franco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Men of Good Will | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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