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...excitement and color surrounding the operations of a commercial airline. That job has fallen to Lieut. Commander Frank Wead, U. S. N. retired, leader of the Navy's 1923 Schneider Cup squadron, who turned to fiction and the cinema after he broke his neck by tumbling down a stairway at his San Diego home nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 22, 1935 | 4/22/1935 | See Source »

...sausages and gathered in a swank night club to dance. They were dressed as their own dreams to do honor to Surrealist Painter Salvador Dali who paints realistic pictures of horrid fantasies and was about to sail for Europe after a Manhattan exhibition (TIME, Nov. 26). On the stairway stood a bathtub clotted with mud, oysters and, later, cigaret butts. Dali's handsome wife wore a dress of transparent red paper, a headpiece decorated with lobsters and a doll's head, representing necrophilia, which Mme Dali herself explained as "excessive fondness for dead bodies." Artist Dali wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Society | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...world's richest university, can hardly escape a visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LUX ET VERITAS | 1/3/1935 | See Source »

...building, the front wall of which was left unchanged. He had a look at the new Cabinet room, much larger than the old. big enough to accommodate a meeting of the 34 members of the National Emergency Council. Then he passed through a new corridor in which was a stairway leading to the floor below and a side entrance. The stairway was supposed to be a secret exit for Presidential callers who did not want to be stopped and quizzed by the Press in the main lobby. It remained a secret for about two hours. That same afternoon Secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: New Quarters | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lumberman at Home | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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