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In William Wallace Atterbury's magnificent Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan one evening last week occurred a passing commotion. Under the grey concourse lights were gathered some 200 persons, mostly girls, some young and lithe, some young and statuesque. They made weary travelers stop and stare. Surrounded by luggage, scented with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Bridge | 6/22/1931 | See Source »

Purchased were 8,000 acres of barren sand dunes. On March 12, 1906 surveyors drove their first stakes among the tumbleweeds for U. S. Steel's fiat city. Streets were laid out, houses built, water and gas mains sunk. Top soil was brought in to spread over the sand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fiat City | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

A spanking breeze was blowing up one day last fortnight as the schooner Livonia nosed out to sea past Plana Cay near Acklin Island, Bahamas. At the helm was Rt. Rev. Roscow George Shedden, Anglican Bishop of Nassau, master and owner of the Livonia. A hearty amateur yachtsman, a onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bahamian Tragedy | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

Your critic speaks of the "many ponderous plums" which can be "pulled out of this (my) heavy Teutonic pudding." I like plum pudding but I always thought that it was an English, not a Teutonic dish. His description of me "thick-spectacled, thick-lipped and thick-nosed" wounds my Narcissism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

After a breach in athletic relations which has lasted for two years, the Harvard CRIMSON and its long-nosed contemporary from Mount Auburn Street will meet today on the inter-literary diamond. The final score, when the tumult dies way and the last hero has been lifted into the waiting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Victory Prophesied for Crimson as Pressmen Renew Their Athletic Relations With Lampoon in Famed Diamond Classic | 5/13/1931 | See Source »

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