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...homes in & around Pittsburgh for Easter vacation. One had been given the air trip by his parents as a reward for high marks. Also on board was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife of the Mayor of Newark, bound for St. Louis to visit a daughter. The plane's hostess was a neat, slight, dark girl of 22 named Nellie Granger. The chief pilot, Otto Ferguson, had been flying since the War. This was his 42nd birthday and his family had arranged a party for him at Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: On Cheat Mountain | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...natty checked suit, Alfred Emanuel Smith ascended to the observation platform of Manhattan's Empire State Building accepted a ten-gallon hat from beauteous Irene Caldwell, official hostess of the Texas Centennial Exposition. He gave her a brown derby for Texas' Governor James V. Allred, grabbed her nape, planted a resounding kiss on her cheek, offered to do it all over again for the photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 6, 1936 | 4/6/1936 | See Source »

...vieux carré, Lillian McDowell, whose profession was listed as "cabaret hostess," teetered out of a saloon with a man she had picked up. Soon she staggered back inside clutching her stomach and moaning: "Slim cut me." Hostess McDowell died. Police began looking for "Slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Hell before Lent | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Estelle Hughes, another "cabaret hostess," left the Red Dot Café with a sailor and a jockey, wound up at dawn on the lawn of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railway station. There was a bullet through her brain and her skirt had been pulled up over her head. Police arrested the jockey. At the dead woman's rooming house, her 9-year-old daughter was dressed in an Indian suit, wailing for her mother to take her out to see the parades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Hell before Lent | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

Left. By the late Charles Curtis, one-time (1929-33) Vice President of the U. S.; to Sister Dolly Curtis Gann, his official hostess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 2, 1936 | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

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