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...Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50) * First, John Tyler; Second, Grover Cleveland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Wife's Story | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...Oilmen, steelmen and Mayor Angelo J. Rossi got behind Mr. Dixon's original idea, which was to celebrate completion of San Francisco's two great bridges. Chosen president of the fair corporation was Leland W. Cutler, who is no gardenia-fragrant showman like New York's Grover Aloysius Whalen,* yet is just as sound a financier and heady planner. An engineer named William Peyton Day made cruise after patient cruise taking soundings of the shoals north of Yerba Buena (Goat) Island, perfecting the idea of pumping up out of the Bay's black bottom a site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Western Wonderland | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...Past medalists: Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, onetime High Commissioner for German Refugees James Grover McDonald, Executive Director Estelle Sternberger of World Peaceways, Novelist-Playwright Franz Werfel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

Oldtime Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, 51, last year chosen by the Baseball Writers Association to join the 13 immortals in baseball's Hall of Fame, was discovered sharing the bill with "Sealo -Half Boy, Half Seal" and "Professor Heckler's Trained Flea Circus" in a Manhattan nickel museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Married. Brian Grover, 37, British engineer, and his wife, Elena, 36; for the second time; in London. Last November, when he wanted to rejoin his Russian bride, Grover was unable to get a Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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