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...come out of her school, where the Weyerhaeuser chauffeur was to meet them and take them home to lunch. He had wandered into the grounds of the Tacoma Lawn Tennis Club. As he was emerging on the other side he saw a man standing on the curb beside a "tan sedan." "He asked me where Stadium Way was. I told him I didn't know and he came over toward me and grabbed me and put his hand over my mouth and pulled me into the tan sedan." After that George remembered riding a long time, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fine Boy's Return | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...into the store, is president of Rutgers University.) Of the three living sons of Founder Strawbridge only one, Robert, is active as vice president. His brother Francis, a director, retired from active business some years ago as did jovial, sandy-haired Frederic H. Strawbridge who, resplendent in a tan bowler and greatcoat, cheeks pink as pippins, is often seen riding at Chestnut Hill high on the seat of his tallyho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Cash & Credit | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...which Gypo has been dismissed for disobedience. Frankie is Gypo's best friend. The ?20 will take Gypo and his Katie out of Ireland. Gypo Nolan's piglike little eyes twinkle as he debates the issue thus presented with himself. Then he lumbers off to the Black & Tan headquarters and collects the reward, for revealing that Frankie has come down from the hills to his mother's house where, a few minutes later. Black & Tan troops shoot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 20, 1935 | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

Though still bearing the tan of his Bahamian vacation, President Roosevelt seemed to White House observers last week almost as tired, harassed and supersensitive as when he went away. Three mutually aggravating circumstances had helped to make him so. They were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Roosevelt Week: May 6, 1935 | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

...birthday his daughters sent him Scotch whiskey, which he likes to drink after midnight. His Prudential friends also gave him something he yearned for- a light tan suitcase banded with bright red stripes. Red is his obsession. Red are his ties, red the flowers he sends Mrs. Hoffman (she pays the florist), red the dresses he prefers women to wear. Earliest appearance of the obsession: first time he saw Mrs. Hoffman, she was leaning over the white gate of her home at Americus, Ga., wearing a red calico dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vital Statistician | 5/6/1935 | See Source »

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