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On the campus of St. John's College, Annapolis, stands a tulip poplar which some say is 600 years old. In its shade the white colonists made a treaty in 1652 with the Susquehannock Indians. Alumnus Francis Scott Key ("The Star-Spangled Banner") grew nostalgic beneath it in 1806...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Youngest at Third Oldest | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

Matthew Chauncey Brush, president of American International Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bear Hunt (Cont'd) | 5/2/1932 | See Source »

Born. To Gloria Swanson, 31, film actress, and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; a daughter; in London. Weight: 7 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Michele Bridget. Said Actress Swanson: "I'm so excited I can hardly talk. ... It was all so sudden." She was illegally married Aug. 16 last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 18, 1932 | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Constance Bennett is 26, blonde, 105 lb., married (to the Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye). Her adopted son (Peter, offspring of a cousin), is three. She has blue eyes and is one inch taller than

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

The picture shows the sweet and grave dignity typical of Bellini, but it is almost certainly the work of one of his pupils, perhaps Niccolo Rondinelli. In the Layard collection of the National Gallery is another version, differing only in that the Madonna's hood is more elaborately embroidered and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBITS "MADONNA" OF BELLINI | 12/2/1931 | See Source »

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