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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eugene Victor Debs came with Socialism. George Spoor and E. H. Ahmet took pictures that moved ("Essanay") of Gloria Swanson, Charlie Chaplin. Eddie Foy tried to stop the fire-panic at the Iroquois Theatre. Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters got an audience denied in the East. Three young businessmen began Rotary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Garlic Creek | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...natives last week strained and scrambled to get a look at 45 thickly greased women, some with sketchy swimming suits, some with none, as they dove into the cool waters of Lake Ontario, swam away around a two-mile rectangular course. Before the first lap was circled. Swimmer Vivian Lee Welsh screamed, thrashed, floundered in the water. A large lamprey eel had fastened its horny teeth into her side. Shuddering with fright, writhing with cramps, she was lifted into a Red Cross rescue boat. At the end of the first lap Martha Norelius of New York, 1928 Olympic champion lately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wrigley Swim | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Texas" Sirs: In describing the Robert E. Lee's race from New Orleans to St. Louis (TIME, Aug. 5) you say that the "Texas" is the pilot house. . . . Every Mississippi steamer has a pilot house but only the larger packets have a Texas. The small packets and tow boats do not have a Texas. The pilot house is built on top of the Texas. The members of the crew are quartered in the Texas on the large packets, leaving the cabin entirely for passengers. On small packets and tow boats the crew are quartered in the cabin. . . . E. CARROLL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Appeared at the hearing many artistic friends of the sculptor, equally convinced of his rationality and "artistic magnificence." Among these was Arthur Lee, Norwegian-born sculptor who recently contended in Oilman Ernest Whitworth Marland's competition for the Pioneer Woman and whose torso, "Volupte," is lodged in the Metropolitan Museum. Another was Samilla Love Jameson (married name: Heinzmann) who lately completed a bust of Tammany's 100-year-old Grand Sachem John Richard Voorhis (TIME, Aug. 5). She offered to sell the bust to the highest bidder for money to help the cause. Others were Tamara Loeb, Guggenheim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dreyfuss Case | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Married. Miss Josephine McClellan of Manhattan, daughter of the late General John McClellan; and Cuthbert Lee, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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