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...Dapper Grover Whalen, president of the New York World's Fair scheduled to open on the Flushing Meadows April 30, 1939, stepped aboard the Normandie last week. He was bound for the International Bureau of Expositions in Paris to get his Fair officially recognized. The Bureau consists of 22 nations who got together in 1928, decided that there were too many international fairs, agreed to sanction only one a year. The U. S. is not a member of the Bureau and Mr. Whalen's visit at this time is only a matter of form, but the Bureau...
Biography of greatest distinction was Hamilton Fish; The Inner History Of The Grunt Administration (TIME, Oct. 26), by Allan Nevins, who also won in 1933 for his study of Grover Cleveland...
...simple virtues of hard work and honesty, preaches intellectual curiosity and never-ending self-education. To troubled friends he advises, "Read a book, make a friend, take a walk." To himself when impatient with strange people and their causes he recalls the advice his good fishing friend President Grover Cleveland used to give him when he hooked into a wild one: "Go easy on him, Finley, go easy...
Given each year by Grover Loening, pioneer designer of flying boats, the trophy was won by the Flying Club by a large margin. In addition, Clarence D. Martin, Jr. '39 was appointed president of the Conference, while James K. Davis '38 was made executive director...
...Bostonian hid out there to avoid conscription. Paul was an expert and talkative guide and his wife cooked such bounteous dinners of venison, flapjacks and trout that the lodge grew into an immense rambling structure with 216 rooms. It had such guests as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Mark Twain, Grover Cleveland, Edward H. Harriman. When Paul Smith, an alert, erect oldster of 87 with snowy hair, a Vandyke beard and broad-brimmed hat, died in 1912 he left his three sons the largest estate in Franklin County...