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...many men who have endured and survived Broadway and Hollywood show business. Born in London, he came to the U.S. at 14, was Food Administrator Herbert Hoover's office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented more than 50 night clubs, in 1936 opened his own La Conga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Jitterbughouse | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Plucked Condor | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...this was child's play. Joanne had much bigger things in the back of her head and (partly written) in the back of her bureau drawer. For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down. Some time shortly after infancy, Joanne had decided to do a scenario based on grandma's flood experiences. Since then, it has been her life work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Joanne of the Ark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

Divinity School. Preaching Service. Mr. L. F. Snapp. Divinity Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/26/1897 | See Source »

Divinity School. Preaching Service. Mr. L. F. Snapp. Divinity Chapel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Calendar. | 2/20/1897 | See Source »

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