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...Finalist Richard H. Granelli, 25, a self-taught office boy, had won one of the Institute's $500 scholarships last year for study at Fontainebleau. He figured music buildings brought him luck. He figured further that the main problem of an opera house was to get the people in and out quickly. Concentrating on the cloak rooms and taxi driveway, he drank gallons of black coffee, slept on the floor of his cubicle, drew and erased with furious care. There is no telephone in the Bronx home where Finalist Granelli lives with his father, an Italian mosaicist. But last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Office Boy | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Wanted a Millionaire, Constance Bennett in this picture is an American girl who has adventures in France. She, too, is seen wearing fine feathers and patronizing Parisian cafes while trying to straighten out her romantic uncertainties, but in other respects the pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip gigolo (Ben Lyon) and an elderly fortune hunter (Albert Conti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...ping-pong tournament is nearing completion in the Tennis and Squash Shop. Cole is the finalist from one of the brackets, while the other finalist will be the winner of the match between Frame and either G. D. Key '33 or M. A. Hoffman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD'S FIRST PING-PONG TEAM SWINGS INTO ACTION | 12/18/1931 | See Source »

Engaged. Eugene Vanderpool Homans, U. S. amateur golf championship finalist in 1930, five times (1922-27) junior champion of New Jersey. Princeton captain in 1928; and Marian Bennett, socialite golfer of New Britain, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 5, 1931 | 10/5/1931 | See Source »

...Junior field, W. C. Wallace '32 is a semi-finalist. The Sophomore tournament, with an unusually large entry list, has been narrowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS AND SQUAD TENNIS TOURNEYS NEAR FINALS | 5/7/1931 | See Source »

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