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...Into the patio of Palm Beach's No. 1 estate for the No. 1 party of the winter thronged some 400 guests to sip champagne, eat strawberry ice, listen as Banker Edward Townsend Stotesbury celebrated his 87th birthday by rattling a snare drum as he did in the Civil War. A hale, hearty, dapper little man, Host Stotesbury, Philadelphia's richest tycoon, senior partner in J. P. Morgan & Co., was also persuaded to sing his favorite song. The Old Family Toothbrush that Hangs in the Sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 9, 1936 | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...Belgrade to bring back special wax candles for the birthday cake. Beamed Dr. House: "The whole place seems to me as much like a miracle as possible when we remember what it was when we bought it. I never tire of looking out from our patio or out of our screened porch which looks out directly on the sea. It is all so beautiful, so restful to us old folks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Farm School | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...patio living room of a house in northern California the boys tell Jean Rouverol that it is time she stopped trying to play with them. Four months later she is trying out high heels and inquiring why it is bad form to tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...breakdown, went to Florence for a rest. When she returned she enlarged her restaurant, sold not only Italian, Spanish and English pottery and tea sets, but decorated the place to look like an Italian garden. Prospering, she added two other spots of Italian atmosphere, a Normandy Inn, a Spanish patio in other parts of Manhattan, as well as a marionette store at the opening of which a sign announced: "Alice Foote MacDougall and Tony Sarg have a surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Frugality, Inc. | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...Simultaneously the third wave of the revolution was sweeping across President Florencio Harmodio Arosemena's famed Moorish patio, disturbing the tortoise in his fountain pool, causing the tame white cranes and the egrets to wake up and squawk. Warned by these fowl, the guards of the Presidential Pal ace were alert. They raked the first group of advancing revolutionists with a volley, scattered them in headlong flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: 15-Hour Coup | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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