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DECEMBER 20 --Arthur S. Pier is elected Permanent Class Secretary by the Senior Class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVENTS OF THE PAST YEAR | 6/20/1935 | See Source »

...reappeared at her drawing room door to pose for pictures. Nearing Manhattan, she alighted with great secrecy at Newark to avoid a reception at the Pennsylvania Station totaling five reporters. Newshawks managed without much difficulty to catch and interview her as she taxied from Newark to a Manhattan pier where, with nother melodramatic dash, she sped up he crew's gangplank to the captain's cabin of the Kungsholm. Again shy Miss Garbo merged, sweeping her long lashes at her fellow passengers. Finally an 11-year-old wandered up to request an autograph. This time secretive Greta Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 17, 1935 | 6/17/1935 | See Source »

...Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe had been quoted in Manhattan as calling French wine "disgusting." To his father, who runs his profitless vineyards for tradition's sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

...meter run--Won by Playfair (H); second, Woodward (H); third, Gurke (MIT); fourth, Johnston (NU); fifth, Pier (H). Time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON TRIUMPHS IN G.B.I. SATURDAY WITH TECH SECOND | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...under the Versailles Treaty, she was reconditioned as an oil-burner in 1922 at a cost of $8,000,000. Returned to transatlantic passenger service in 1923 by the U. S. Shipping Board, she turned up huge losses, spent much of her time at her Hoboken pier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Profitless End | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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