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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minuet in G, the imagination shown in her original pieces. Best was a Nigerian Dance which she wrote when a Nigerian friend sent her a mahogany elephant. Others were: Rolling Home on My Roller Skates, Pansy Bells, The Butterfly, The Wolf (inspired by Little Red Ridinghood&), Golden Fish in Silver Waters, the result of a visit to the Aquarium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harlem Prodigy | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...many rumors about the motive of Girl Pat's wild escapade were last week laid by Harry Stone, her onetime mate, who was left behind in the Dakar Hospital. Said he: "When we left Grimsby, it was to fish. But Skipper Osborne had plans of his own. He was going to sell the boat in some foreign port and divide the proceeds with the crew. . . . We had no charts-only a child's atlas we'd bought at Woolworth's. . . . I was ill. In Dakar . . . they had to leave me behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Again, Girl Pat | 6/22/1936 | See Source »

...Soup) had a baseball team of marriageable daughters between them. In the competitive spending which the launching of these nine young women entailed, the Dorrance triumph was a "Jungle Ball" in Philadelphia's Bellevue-Stratford hotel, where the ballroom was realistically decorated with coconut palms, tanks of tropical fish, a menagerie of monkeys, apes, bears, snakes and hundreds of birds singing in cages hung from the ceiling. Utilitarian Geist's big play was a party on his suburban estate, where 20 acres were converted into a "Versailles Garden" with electric stars in the shrubs. Mr. Kent waited until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Kent Quits | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

...post thrice. White-haired President Benson got his start in his father's real estate firm, shifted to American Can Co., later went into roofing. A broker since 1910, he became senior partner of F. M. Zeiler & Co. in 1923. Handsome, humorous, immaculately dressed, "Brick" Benson likes to fish, play golf, lives in suburban Winnetka. Asked about the outlook for U. S. securities, Broker Benson declared: "In spite of all talk about inflation and so forth, there is no place in the world where money is as safe as it is here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Personnel: Jun. 15, 1936 | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

Arriving in Manhattan after a two-month cruise in the Gulf of California, William Beebe, popular authority on fish, revealed that for the first time in his life he had caught a big fish-a 207-lb. swordfish which he landed in 35 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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