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Tourist Durant last week returned from her trip, announced she had flown 12,000 miles over 19 countries at a cost of 7? a mile. "All I can say," said she, "is that flying over North Africa, Western Asia, and the Balkans is no Sunday School picnic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: No Picnic | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...proprietor did not have that much in his till, but he helped the Cavigliolis collect it from the guests. By now it was getting late. Caviglioli & nephews retreated to the mountains but their luck still held. On the way back they met a party of motorists enjoying a basket picnic. The Cavigliolis collected watches, jewelry, money and the picnic basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Again Caviglioli | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Half way to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover ordered his car stopped for a picnic luncheon. Over a seven-rail fence the President helped his guests, then followed in two steps. Sandwiches and drinks were brought from the trunk rack, spread under big Virginia oaks. Motorists paused along the highway, gaped at their President having...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 24, 1931 | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...seduces a factory girl, Roberta Alden, and attempts to desert her when he is attracted by Sondra Finchley, richer and correspondingly more interesting. When Roberta Alden tells Clyde Griffiths that she is going to have a baby, he is provoked to kill her?by taking her on a picnic, tipping over their rowboat, swimming to shore while she drowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

Last week the Greater New York district R. F. A. held its picnic in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. It was an overcast, showery day. Few attended besides the organizing committee and the family of grey-mustached, bespectacled Dr. Henry Oscar Rockefeller, national president of the R. F. A. Perhaps because of the weather, there was no hilarity. The picnic at Troy, N. Y. last year heard Grace F. Rockefeller speak on "Rockefellers in the Battle of Saratoga." The fourth district (New Jersey) often listens to an entire family of Rockefeller musicians. Sample game played in the second district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 27, 1931 | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

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