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...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Salesman at Work | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Promptly he packed the fifth floor of Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, department store with two and a half acres of medieval armor, Hispano-Moresque pottery, Dutch masters, and other art objects too numerous to mention. By last month the total sales of these and other Hammer enterprises were near $15 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Under the Hammer | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Farrars and Jeritzas of the past, she has managed to be both a voice and a glamor girl. She is perhaps the only opera singer in the U.S. who receives emerald necklaces as casual presents from admirers, and certainly the only one who has gone on tour in a Hispano-Suiza complete with French maid and chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Exuberant Grace | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Severe damage to two of the largest depots-Méaulte and Romilly-sur-Seine; heavy damage to repair shops at Antwerp, Brussels, Le Bourget, Meulan-les-Mureaux, Nantes; considerable damage to the Gnôme-et-Rhône plant at Le Mans; light damage to Paris' Hispano-Suiza plant, destruction to Paris' Caudron Renault shop; Villacoublay was marked "most severe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Case for Precision | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...controlled radio stations which regularly transmit Hispanidad propaganda under titles like "La Vos de Espana," "Espana de Hoy." Spanish films bring Hispanidad to the attention of the moviegoing masses; an increasing number of Spanish dancers, singers, artists stream to Buenos Aires to remind Argentines of the strong ties of Hispano-American culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Hispanidad v. Pan America | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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