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...opponents were doing behind his back. Since that day, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been the proving ground for many another automotive innovation: balloon tires, four-wheel brakes, Ethyl gasoline, straight-eight motors. But to auto-racing fans, the annual Indianapolis Memorial Day classic is just a gigantic picnic, the Kentucky Derby of the horseless carriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaw Wins | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Buses will leave Wellesley and Harvard tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock for the International Students' outing. Students are asked to bring at least two picnic lunches to the affair, which will be held near the Tech cabin on Lake Massapoag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: International Group to Picnic. | 5/4/1940 | See Source »

...Little Flower," or "The Roaring Bull of the Pampas" as he was also known, had no need of a publicity agent. He was the type of "happy thyroid" who always supplied newspapermen with reams of copy. Vag remembered pictures of him beaming at a picnic in the country, glowering over some knotty problems at a meeting of the City Council, or mopping the heat of a burning summer day from his plastic countenance. Then there was that tragi-comic look of hurt surprise as he struck back at the disappointed job-seeker who had assailed him on the steps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/10/1940 | See Source »

...march 31 he will talk to a picnic luncheon of the San Francisco Harvard Club, and will return early in April to Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CONANT STARTS ON ANNUAL TOUR WEST | 3/6/1940 | See Source »

...Santa Monica hills. The only movie people he sees much of are Ronald Colman, Anita Loos, Directors Cukor and Mamoulian, and Charlie Chaplin, "an old and good friend." Another friend he sees fairly often is Bertrand Russell, now a professor at U. C. L. A. Recently he gave a picnic; the guests were Russell and Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time and Craving | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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