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Nov 23, 1936
96 pages
Vol. 1, No. 1
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
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 | Beatrice, Neb - Page 60developed heart trouble and his father, hoping to help her, gave up his business to study medicine, get his MD and practice in nearby Beatrice, Neb. ...more pages: 61 |
| Rio de Janeiro - Page 44"Artistic" Sidewalks such as that shown above are typical of all Rio de Janeiro. This one leads to the Municipal Theatre. Snake hOUSeS are the cement ...more pages: 41 |
| Nyack, NY - Page 35house overlooking the Hudson River at Nyack, NY On Thursdays and Saturdays she leaves at 1 pm to motor to Manhattan and her Victoria Regina matinees, ...more pages: 34 |
More | Filley, Neb - Page 60He was born in 1911 in Filley, Neb., where his father, Spangler Brugh, had a profitable grain business. His mother had lately read a novel whose hero ... |
| Olomouc - Page 56Few photographers ever get into Skoda plants, which produce guns and tanks at Pilsen, planes at Prague, chemicals at Olomouc and make Czechoslovakia a ... |
| Sao Paulo - Page 41Only big cash crop is coffee, grown by white men on the temperate southern plateau of Sao Paulo. The wealth of Brazil funnels into Rio de Janeiro, ...more pages: 44 |
| Pomona - Page 60soon transferred to Pomona, about 40 miles from Los Angeles. There he swapped the "Buddy" for "Doc." In his senior year he pulled enough wires to get ...more pages: 61 62 |
| San Francisco - Page 25Most of the girls at this school in San Francisco wear embroidered tunics and beaded ornaments in their hair.more pages: 18 24 79 80 |
| Barcelona - Page 57The Wealth Of the Spanish people has long been concentrated in Catalonia and its great city, Barcelona, whose Anarchist General Durruti {left) led a ... |
| Binghamton, NY - Page 83margin of quality" which means so much to both advanced amateur and professional photographers. Made by Agfa Ansco Corporation in Binghamton, NY. |
| Madrid - Page 57But in gruesome fact the trenches around Madrid have been piled high with the bodies of brave, if foolish, Spanish women killed in action. |
| Shenandoah, Iowa - Page 47Last year as a high school student in Shenandoah, Iowa, she drove (50 miles every week to an acrobatic- dancing studio in Omaha, thus learned to do ... |
| Crete, Neb - Page 60Arlington Brugh entered Doane College, (Crete, Neb.), soon transferred to Pomona, about 40 miles from Los Angeles. There he swapped the "Buddy" for ... |
| Pittsburgh - Page 34In her later years this opulent wife of the late Alexander Pollock Moore was Helen's hostess whenever the latter passed through Pittsburgh. ... |
| Beverly Hills - Page 62He has a bungalow in Beverly Hills, a house in Hollywood, a camp in the Sierras. He has two secretaries and a valet. He has a Ford for work, ... |
| Atlantic City - Page 10He used to be a traveling salesman in Atlantic City. His pals are Realtor Walt Wilson and Publisher Jerry Reinertson. ... |
| New York - Page 2012 when the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York awarded her its gold medal for good diction. Proudly Actress Claire replied in a special ...more pages: 14 32 50 69 73 79 88 |
| Provo, Utah - Page 26First Presidential turkey of 1936 was this one, grown by Ed Spaulding of Provo, Utah. Because he is the New Deal's friend, ailing Democrat Jimmy Hines ... |
| Chicago - Page 80THAT Southern Pacific's Overland Route trains "go to sea" for 30 miles on their swift journey between Chicago and San Francisco. ...more pages: 69 76 79 |
| Washington, D. C - Page 34Catherine Estelle Hayes Brown of Washington, D. C, posed her on a bear rug for a photographer. Mother and daughter have always been as close as they ...more pages: 67 |
| Prague - Page 56Few photographers ever get into Skoda plants, which produce guns and tanks at Pilsen, planes at Prague, chemicals at Olomouc and make Czechoslovakia a ... |
| Los Angeles - Page 60soon transferred to Pomona, about 40 miles from Los Angeles. There he swapped the "Buddy" for "Doc." In his senior year he pulled enough wires to get ...more pages: 79 |
| Westport, Connecticut - Page 28That year he moved to Westport, Connecticut, continued to paint Kansas. In 1931 he went traveling with Ringling Bros, circus, painted elephants, ... |
| York - Page 20York. InS ClaiTB was playing End of Summer in Chicago Nov. 12 when the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York awarded her its gold medal for ... |
| Seattle - Page 20Last month the O'Neills moved to Seattle "to get the feel of the Northwest." To Playwright O'Neill in Seattle on Nov. 12 came news that the Nobel ... |
| Paris - Page 86THE /O AT THE PRICE OF THE NEXT BEST u 50c and up The world's best garter is Paris. The world says so in Paris sales. Substitutes cost the same price. ...more pages: 56 62 |
| Augusta, Georgia - Page 20Augusta,. Georgia. Cornell Trustees J. Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr., of Niagara Hudson Power Co. (left) and Myron Taylor of US Steel turn up at the ... |
| El Paso - Page 80They are best reached by side trip from El Paso, on the main line of Southern Pacific's Golden State Limited (Chicago-Los Angeles) and Sunset Limited ... |
| Chesapeake - Page 66J/'our handsome pictures this year on Chesapeake and Ohio's 1937 calendar, all the same size and suitable for framing. ... |
| Rome - Page 55raised in Addis Ababa by beaten Haile Selassie in memory of his granduncle the Emperor Menelik who beat the Italians in 1896, was shipped to Rome. ... |
| Oakland - Page 18San Francisco (in foreground) a double-decked highway crosses three long spans, tunnels through Yerba Buena Island, continues on across to Oakland. ... |
| Omaha - Page 47Last year as a high school student in Shenandoah, Iowa, she drove (50 miles every week to an acrobatic- dancing studio in Omaha, thus learned to do ... |
| Glasgow - Page 12For $2 a month you can rent a fifty foot lot in Wheeler from Joe Frazier, the barber over in Glasgow, 20 miles away. ... |
| Baltimore - Page 46Frankfort Distilleries, Incorporated, Louisville and Baltimore, also make Paul Jones (92 proof) , Old Oscar Pepper, and Mattingly & Moore (both 90 ... |
| Louisville, Kentucky - Page 50heart of the Fort Knox army reservation, 35 miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, the Treasury Department will concentrate its $10000000000 gold hoard. ... |
| Englewood - Page 35Each morning she is driven to the Dwight School in Englewood. Tall, thin, self-possessed, independent, pig-tailed, she plays the piano, dances, ... |
| Honolulu - Page 86Midway Island, lying 1380 miles west of Hawaii (but still legally within the city limits of Honolulu) rises only 50 ft. above sea-level and is covered ... |
| Whittier, Calif - Page 61is exciting but inaccurate. She was Dorothy For- ster, Pomona co-ed, and is now Mrs. Sam Warren, wife of a Whittier, Calif., schoolteacher. |
| Casablanca - Page 56Come tO rule French MorOCCO, able General Nogues was received in state by the 25-year- old, 13-wived Sultan of Morocco Sidi Mohammed in Casablanca. ... |
| Detroit, Michigan - Page 49HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit, Michigan Hudson Motors of Canada, Ltd., Tilbury, Ont. Hudson's new 4-passenger Coupe has a full-width undivided ... |
| St. Louis - Page 10The project is an earthen dam — the world's largest —2000 miles up the Missouri from St. Louis. The dam is intended to give work to Montana's ... |
| Panama - Page 79Your time away may be cut to only 85 days by sailing from San Francisco, disem- barkingatNewYork...eliminatingHavana and Panama. ... |
| Salt Lake City - Page 69DENVER WHS4S cin M >' Arrow-straight from the Atlantic to the Pacific — from New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Omaha and Salt Lake City, ... |
| ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN - Page 86ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN UandStofycavedtftatswace 3-Letter Monograms by Cut-GlassArtisans Hostess Buffet Set, delightfully versatile, consists of Cocktail ... |
| Vienna - Page 5520), Vienna (Nov. 10),' Budapest (Nov. 13), wearing for the first time a general's epaulettes. |
| Berlin - Page 55COUnt GaleaZZO CianO did father-in-law's errands in Berlin (Oct. 20), Vienna (Nov. 10),' Budapest (Nov. 13), wearing for the first time a general's ... |
| Penha - Page 44His companion in the dance at Rio's suburb of Penha is much lighter, with definitely European features. She is an accepted white woman, ... |
| Bombay - Page 5914, by the young Mohammedan tough at his side, in a wild, four-day Bombay riot between Moslems and Hindus. Inspector Wilkinson commands a police ... |
| Buenos Aires - Page 40From Rio to Buenos Aires is 1300 miles. THE towering, 130-ft. Christ at right may be seen again at left overlooking the stunning harbor of Rio. ... |
| Tokyo - Page 79See Japan's royal Tokyo 104 days (three months and a half) are all that are required! $1033 is the complete cost! What can you do in 104 days? ... |
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