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...original shock was the gloomy contrast of his now flaccid purse with the sleek one he formerly possessed prior to paying his first term bill. A bill which included the outrageous addition of rent for the Greek Common Room in Adams House of which he has been the sole occupant during the current season. However the latest and by far the most serious situation, as it is entirely a matter of the Vagabond's personal cosmology, centers in and about the anti-macassar atmosphere of Grays 18, home of history and literature. The collegiate play-boy has at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/8/1931 | See Source »

...Harvey Dow Gibson was born in North Conway. N. H. Now he lives on a great estate at Locust Valley. He rides after hounds with the Meadowbrook and wears on his chin the scar of a fall. Every morning his sleek cruiser Mystery awaits him in his own yacht basin to take him to Manhattan. Not always has he sped to work on a yacht. First, without much delight, he swept out the offices of American Express Co. in Boston. He turned out to be quite a broom. In a few years he had swept himself into place as financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: New York Consortium | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

Proud of new Stutz models is President Gorrell. The 1931 cars have an unusually low centre of gravity, 8 cylinders, dual-valve principle, four-speed transmission, hydraulic boosted brakes, extra rigid bodies. Big and solid and sleek, a Stutz car carries Stutz Associate Schwab. Other names for Stutz to conjure with: William E. Dodge Stokes and Frederic de Peyster, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Witherbee Black. Paul Whiteman and Herbert Bayard Swope. Cardinal Dougherty of Phila- delphia wears his red biretta in a Stutz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Stutz Solo | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Bourget Field for a takeoff. Pilot Lebrix paused in his preparations to scowl at the sight of another ship, pushed from a nearby hangar. It was the famed Question Mark which Capt. Dieudonne ("Doudou") Coste flew to the U. S. last year. And there was "Doudou" himself, stocky, sleek-haired, grinning. No one would be more pleased to see Lebrix beaten in a race. The two men had been enemies ever since their spectacular co-flight around the world in 1927, at the end of which Lebrix bitterly declared that he ''was sick of being a valet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Hyphen, Question Mark, Period | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

...Hotsy Totsy, sleek, brown speed boat owned by Victor Kleisrath: the Gold Cup race, at Montauk, L. I.; at an average speed of 53:59 m.p.h., slightly faster than her winning time last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Who Won | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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