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...Hard Way. At eleven, Lew went east to the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. While his father made a strike at the U.V.X. mines in central Arizona, Lew was studying history and playing baseball at Amherst, trying to make up his mind what to do next. After one postgraduate year studying metallurgy at M.I.T., World War I decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Manager Abroad | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...Tarrytown, N.Y., the Hudson River mansion of Washington Irving, restored by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (at a cost of almost $1,000,000) to the approximate condition in which the author of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow left it when he died in 1859, was opened as a public museum. Inside the quaint white pile, decked with crowstep gables, weathercocks and bronze finials, visitors found Irving's library intact, saw his shaving equipment, medicine bottles, pens and four-poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Agenda. In Rockefeller Center, before the gilded statue of Prometheus, the American Association for the United Nations was industriously hammering together a set of flagpoles, loudspeakers and rostrums for the celebration of "United Nations Week." Westchester County's Tarrytown had somehow been appointed "model United Nations community," and forthwith broke out in a rash of red-white-&-blue bunting. While 10,000 enthusiasts besieged the Secretariat for tickets to the great International Floor Show (only 30 visitors would be admitted the first day), Tarrytown's Fire Department, the Girls' Friendly Society, the Kiwanis Club of Bound Brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Omdurman to Flushing | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

MacDonald also announced that John B. Ensign '46 of Eliot House and Tarrytown, N. Y., has been appointed manager for the 1947 season as the winner of the competition held this fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mavor Picked to Captain 1947 Fall Crimson Booters | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...world wide. Moscow cuts itself off from the world; there are riots in Paris and a wave of vice in Rome; London pleads with its populace to remain calm while a Royal Commission continues its investigation. And while the world sits on the brink of disaster, Mr. Adam, of Tarrytown, N. Y., gives birth to a normal baby girl and Mr. Adam goes to Washington as the greatest hero since Lindbergh. Such is the new moved by journalist Frank, who deftly beams a spotlight on the tightrope that the ordinary Joe and wife must tread during an atomic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 11/6/1946 | See Source »

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