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...Westport resident is Patrick A. Powers, an enterprising Irishman, onetime backer of Walt Disney, organizer of Universal Film Co., later of Film Booking Office of America (forerunner of RKO) who sold out his Hollywood interests several years ago, purchased a 200-acre estate in Westport, where he built the Longshore Country Club. Sociable, civic-minded Powers spends his winters in a marble-floored palace at Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson River, wears green suits and still sports an Irish accent. Last week he promised Westporters a great gift: he would build a $100,000 "marine stadium" at Westport, lease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Salzburg on the Saugatuck | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Looking very much better than last year is John Senior, the leader in the struggle for the four oar. Walt Kernan, now stroking the seconds may come in here and Bill Rowe can then take Kernan's Jayvees. Phil Dean is a rather un-likely prospect for this opening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/10/1938 | See Source »

...Walt Kernan and Barr Comstock stroked the second and third heavies, who also turned out. Three more Varsity and several Freshmen boats completed the ranks of crews which got out for the first day. At least three more of Bert Haines 150's will be down soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREWS TAKE TO RIVER IN EARLY TRIAL RUNS | 3/8/1938 | See Source »

...interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Barnard Associates were founded to "emulate John Barnard of the Class of 1700, who was fond of good books and did what he could for Harvard." This is the fourth publication of the society which has already issued facsimiles of the Shelley Notebook and one of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass," both owned by the College Library...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crane's "Hazelford Sketch Book" Published by Press | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

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