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Divorced. Charles A. Levine, 41, fabulous Brooklyn junk dealer who accompanied Clarence Chamberlin on his 1937 European flight as the first transatlantic airplane passenger; by his second wife, Delia Doris Levine; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty. For more than a year Levine has been in Northeastern Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa., serving a two-year sentence for smuggling tungsten into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week Arnaud Marts consented to be Bucknell's president-for weekends. He will spend half the week in his Manhattan offices, each Wednesday night will entrain for Lewisburg to lead Bucknell for the rest of the week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Part-Time President | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Pa.), is a small, co-educational college, until recently distinguished chiefly for its football teams. Two years ago Bucknell, which, like every other college, craves a money raiser as its president, made a remarkable capture. As acting president it acquired slim, square-jawed Arnaud Cartwright Marts, a graduate of Oberlin College. Arnaud Marts had raised $1,000,000 for Bucknell in his spare time. All told he had pried from philanthropists no less than $200,000,000 for colleges, hospitals, religious institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Part-Time President | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week was a full one for Pumpernickle Bill. Thousands of his readers welcomed him at the annual Pennsylvania Folk Festival at Lewisburg, where they made merry with "shigs" (jigs), songs and games. His entry, the Martztowners. captured the $100 prize for the best square dance team. In the course of his rounds Pumpernickle Bill collects his people's folk lore, preserves their songs on his ubiquitous recording machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pumpernickle Bill | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Died. Benjamin K. Focht, 74, long-time Representative from Pennsylvania, editor & publisher of the Lewisburg Saturday News since 1881; of heart disease; in Washington, where he had served seven terms in Congress since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 5, 1937 | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

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