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Stately Pierces. Briggs Cunningham was born in the middle of the Vanderbilt Cup era, in 1907. But at the Cunningham house in Cincinnati, where Briggs Sr. made his money in meat packing, the speedy shenanigans on Long Island were ignored. Father Cunningham was a lover of good horseflesh. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Cunningham remembers that first Pierce well, since "mother was happy with the same car as long as it would run. It lasted ten years, and after that we had another Pierce that lasted another ten years." Briggs got his own first car, a Dodge, at 16, graduated to Auburns and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

From the outside, the three blue-and-silver buses parked in front of the New York Stock Exchange this week looked like any other passenger buses. But inside, instead of seats, each had three offices filled with desks, radiotelephones, easy chairs, an outlet for a stock market ticker and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Brokers on Wheels | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

From 1914-15 O'Neill was a special student in the Drama here at the George Pierce Baker Workshop, at the same time Atkinson was an undergraduate. "America's greatest dramatist's" best known published plays include "Desire Under the Elms," "The Iceman Cometh," and "The Emperor Jones."

Author: By Robert L. Saxe, | Title: Unpublished O'Neill Plays Hold Mystery | 4/1/1954 | See Source »

Undergraduate dramatic groups have cursed the University's completely inadequate theatre facilities since the days of George Pierce Baker. But they have never done anything about it. Always, they placed their hopes in some rich alumnus rumored nearly ready to sign a check for the half million or so that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark a Million | 3/20/1954 | See Source »

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