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...finest honeymoon money could buy. To top it off, Evalyn dropped in at Cartier's in Paris, bought herself a jeweled ornament called the Star of the East ($120,000) and smuggled it through the U. S. Customs. Father paid up, of course. Another time when Evalyn and Ned went abroad, to get over having had their first baby, Evalyn won about $70,000 at Monte Carlo and they set off to drive to Paris. When they got there, having beaten the train time by ten minutes, they found that their chauffeur, forgotten in the back seat, was dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poverty Flat | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

There was someone else her parents did not want her to marry, and that was young Ned McLean. The McLeans, who owned the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer, had struck it rich a generation or so before the Walshes. Even Evalyn could see that Ned McLean was pretty thoroughly spoiled. But "he was a dear when he was sober. . . . When he was not spree-drinking he often led a most exemplary life; he loved to play with horses and dogs, and concerning golf he became, eventually, so keen that he hired a leading professional to teach him." So, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poverty Flat | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Remaining behind to carry on are six good forwards and two good defense men. The Sophomore line of George Roberts, Johnny Mechem, and Ned Cutter, shows the possibility of a great career. With plenty of speed and teamwork they furnished the spark of the Harvard attack this year. The three Juniors who played this year will supplement the Sophomore line with offensive power. They are George Ford, a great center, Louis Carr, and Leo Ecker, whose severe leg fracture is apparently healing well. Stubbs will have one good veteran defense pair in Sophomore Traff Hicks and Russ Allen. Two others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/10/1936 | See Source »

Only the Sophomore line of George Roberts, Ned Cutter, and Johnny Mechem has escaped revision after the exam period. Under the necessity of working up some close teamwork before the Dartmouth game this Saturday, Joe Stubbs has formed his forward lines and kept them fixed in the three practice sessions so far. They will be put to the first tost tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Stickmen Will Meet Braeburn at Country Club | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

...Collegiate, Playboy Joe Craig (Jack Oakie), his press-agent (Ned Sparks) and his right-hand man (Lynne Overman) are dismayed when Craig's aunt wills him a young ladies' seminary. The plot takes its expected course when Craig, after hitchhiking to the school, turns it into a combined singing & dancing academy, with the aid of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel, who wrote the songs they play in the picture, Frances Langford, as a secretary who falls in love with Craig, and an enticing quorum of Paramount chorus girls. All this is pleasantly written and brightly played, but whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 3, 1936 | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

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