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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular Stavisky's widow, handsome onetime Chanel Model Arlette Simon, protested during the trial that in 1926 he swore to her that he would "go straight." She vowed that she never doubted he had gone straight until after his death and the disclosure that he had swindled Frenchmen out of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 'Misplaced Confidence | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...millionaire named Howard Hughes was eating a combination breakfast and luncheon in Los Angeles. To this oilman-cineman-aviator came a telephone report that weather was fine all the way across the continent. Cramming a last mouthful Howard Hughes dashed out to Burbank, where for three days a stock model Northrop "Gamma" with a special engine had been waiting with 700 gallons of gasoline aboard. Stopping neither to get food nor to tell anyone but his timer that he was out to add the transcontinental non stop record to the world landplane speed mark he already holds (TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Nothing Sensational | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...brandishing the knife. Her Isolde had a nobility so flamingly tense that when it was matched once with Toscanini's conducting a halt had to be called in rehearsal for the other singers to regain their repose. Critics still hold up the Fremstad Kundry as a model for that scraggly, wild-haired creature of the woods, who turns seductress for the second act. As the Walkure Brünnhilde she wore short, bushy hair, a cloak the color of the clouds, fairly flew about the stage. At a Götterdäm-merung performance she fell down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Memories of a Diva | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Electrons, genealogy and collecting model penguins are among the 80 hobbies which have been recorded so far in the poll being, conducted by the Union Committee. All these hobbies will be filed at the Union and any member of the class will be able to obtain the names of his classmates who have similar interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Photography, Yachting Are Most Popular Yard Hobbies | 1/15/1936 | See Source »

White also dates from the century's turn, the first White being a steam-powered passenger model built by a son of the late Thomas H. White, who founded White Sewing Machine Co. after the Civil War and got into transportation by way of roller skates and bicycles. White abandoned automobiles for trucks in 1918. During the War, White made its all-time production record of 15,000 units, most of which went to France. Management was in the hands of the founder's sons until 1929, when Walter White was killed in an automobile accident. Coca-Cola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trucks | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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