Word: andrew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret is it that Andrew Mellon, before he made his gift to Washington three years ago, spent much time trying to persuade his friend Joe Widener to join him, since their two collections were perhaps the world's finest in private hands. Last time the two met, Mellon vowed, "I'll have you in with me yet." The addition of the Widener paintings and the fine Italian collection presented last summer by 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress (TIME, July 24) would make Washington's National Gallery one of the great galleries of the world...
...Robert Stange '41, vice president. David Fleischman '41, secretary, Paul Olum '40, Avram S. Goldstein '40, Irwin Ross '40, William Rossmore '40, Arthur Kinoy '41, Max D. Gaebler '41, John A. Rolabird, Jr. '49, Robert G. Nassau '48, Walter K. Rosen '42, Sidney Jackson '48, and Andrew E. Nice...
...Unescorted by the high command and the press, but only by an aide and a batman, another member of Britain's ruling family last week toured the British front: H. R. H. Prince Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, Major General (formerly Field Marshal) the Duke of Windsor, 45. He traveled (and slept) in a caravan consisting of a trailer towed by a small coupe. Unlike his brother and successor on the throne, who was kept well back and whose trail he did not cross, he visited the foremost zones. His mission: to inquire into and report...
Meanwhile, not all Hungary's troubles were with the Communists. In an important by-election the demonstrative Andrew Mecser, known as "Hitler's personal representative in Budapest," was decisively defeated for the Lower Chamber. Next day Führer Adolf Hitler showed his displeasure at the defeat by conferring on Herr Mecser the German Order of the Eagle...
...Ritter Span, invented two years ago by 20-year-old Andrew Mowbray Ritter, University of Michigan junior and Gamma Sigma's president, is a complicated back flip in which a performer leaps into the air, twists his body into a horizontal arc "which he holds momentarily," then lights on his hands, flips his feet over his head and finishes as erect as a West Point cadet. "Less than 30% of the Gamma Sigmas are able to do it," admits President Ritter, who broke his wrist Ritter-spanning last year. Most Gamma Sigmas can do the Nelson Arch (a less...