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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venice he was photographed feeding the pigeons outside of St. Mark's Cathedral. It was a drizzly morning and the Mayor, with Mrs. Walker, had just attended Mass. This was the occasion for scurrilous comments in the Manhattan press. Slyly wrote the correspondent of the tabloid Daily News: "When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: A Mayor Abroad | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...Calvin Coolidge has returned from his annual woodchuck hunt in his native State. He broke his record, capturing eleven fine looking and healthy chucks." Last week this report was rediscovered in the Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Mass.) of Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...smooth tennis lawns of the Longwood Cricket Club, Brookline, Mass., famous men played doubles for the U. S. championship. Famous William Johnston, San Francisco, stepped off the train out of practice and teamed with Richard Norris Williams. Once they had played doubles together before; to win the Norwood Tournament in England, 1920. Spectators watched them narrowly, since only they could dispute with William T. Tilden Jr., Germantown, Pa., and Francis Hunter, New Rochelle, N. Y., sly shotmakers, the honor of playing doubles for the U. S. against France in the approaching Davis Cup matches. They won early matches easily against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Men's Doubles | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

...first Sunday of each month hereafter, said the cards, let any person call the Delia Vecchia garage and a Delia Vecchia cab will promptly call for him and take him, free of charge, to "the first mass only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Red Bank | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Smaller cities: South Hadley, Mass., Montclair, Morristown, N. J.; Amsterdam, Oswego, N. Y.; Mansfield, Ohio; Appleton, Ripon. Green Bay, Wis.; Keokuk, Iowa City, Iowa; Hutchinson, Winfield, Kan.; Chickasha, Norman, Okla.; Denton, Austin. Tex.; Fairmont, Clarksburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Guild on the Road | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

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