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...captained the hockey and baseball teams (playing shortstop), was elected president of the student council, joined Hasty Pudding, Phoenix Club and Signet Society, among others. He developed a passion for foreign cars. He owned, in turn, a Mercedes, Voisin, Panhard-Levassor, Hispano-Suiza. After graduation, with only average grades, he put in a short tour of duty in the postwar army. Then his father's friend George Lee gave him a job in his investment banking house of Lee, Higginson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Salesman at Work | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...March, "Pomp and Circumstance"Elgar *First Movement (Allegro moderato) "Unfinished" Symphony Schubert *Song to the Evening Star, "Tannhauser" Wagner *"Finlandia," Symphonic Poem Sibelius *Waltz Scene from "Faust" Gounod *The Lost Chord Trumpet solo: Roger Voisin Sullivan *Ouverture Solennelle "1812" Tchaikovsky *"Tales from the Vienna Woods," Waltzes Strauss *Hora Staccato (Roumanian) Dinicu-Heifetz *Procession of the Sardar, from the "Caucasian Sketches" Ippolitov-Ivanov *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE POPS | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Divorced. Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of French Automobileman Gabriel Voisin; from Gifford Pinchot 2nd, nephew of Pennsylvania's longtime Governor Pinchot; in Dade City, Fla. Grounds: infidelity, uncontested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 7, 1935 | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...Claire. Separated. Sacha Guitry, actor, famed as "the perfect lover"; and Yvonne Printemps, actress; in Paris. Seeking Divorce. Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, niece of Pennsylvania's Governor Gifford Pinchot; from William Gaston, Manhattan lawyer. With her to Reno went her brother Gifford Pinchot II, seeking divorce from Janine Voisin Pinchot, daughter of a French automobile manufacturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 22, 1932 | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...Rosamond Pinchot Gaston was featured in a Hupmobile advertisement. A description of her said: "She adores horses, motor cars, and motor boats. . . . Peel of London makes her riding boots, and Nardi her habits. . . . Her favorite luncheon place is the Voisin where she always has a certain corner table. . . . They know her in Vienna, Prague, Salzburg, New York, and points west as the nun in The Miracle, and all over Europe as a member of Max Reinhardt's Repertoire company. . . . She shuttles between New York and an island off the coast of Maine by train, car, and speed boat. . . . Her personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

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