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Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Legislators at Lansing | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...played for the East last week was built around its No. 3, tall, brawny, 27-year-old Winston Guest, second cousin of Britain's Winston Churchill. After last week's game young Winston Guest did not even wait for dinner before rushing to town with his bride, Helena McCann Guest, to tell the New York Young Republican Club about his three ambitions for 1934: "To marry Helena. ... To help win the East-West polo series. . . . To win the election in the 19th [State Senatorial] District...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Meadow Brook Mistakes | 10/8/1934 | See Source »

...years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Gloomy Queen | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

...pick from an overabundance of able young players the four who function best together. Younger, lighter, with an aggregate handicap of 30 goals to the West's 36, East last week had only one seasoned Internationalist: Winston Guest, who had returned from a honeymoon withhis Woolworth heiress bride, Helena McCann Guest, just in time for the trial matches. Of his three teammates only one played in the East-West series last year. Mike Phipps is a stubby, hard-riding youngster who was a member of Yale's intercollegiate championship team in 1930 and 1932. Like Mills, who also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Polo Pickings | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets and in the homes of Helena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Helena Locals | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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