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Clara Bryant Ford, wife of 79-year-old Motorman Henry, reaching 76 (on their 55th wedding anniversary), gave her recipe for happiness: "Lead as natural and as kindly a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...greatest producer of second-rate opera in the U.S. is Alfredo Salmaggi. He moved from Brooklyn to Manhattan last week, set up his scenery and props in 55th Street's Turko-Egyptian Mecca Theater, led off with a roof-raising performance of Traviata. Competition from the Metropolitan Opera House bothered Impresario Salmaggi not a whit. "My singers," he averred with a lordly shake of his shoulder-length hair, "are mucha better than the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poor Man's Impresario | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

California Shipbuilding Corp. (TIME, July 13) at Los Angeles launched its 55th Liberty ship, last of the ships on its first war contract, 200 days ahead of schedule and just 18 months after the first pile was driven for its $20,000,000 shipyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: How to Get Copper Miners | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...South 55th Street, Omaha, early this week, Walter Sorensen's sister Anna still did not know for sure whether Walter was dead. She only knew what she read in the papers: of 142 men aboard, 45 men had been saved, eight of them injured. One body was recovered. One man died after being rescued. The Navy Department had "little hope" for the seven officers and 88 men who were unaccounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Reuben James to Davy Jones | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Birthdays. King Carol of Rumania, his 46th; Aimee Semple McPherson, her 49th; Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, her 55th (see p. 19); William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, Britain's No. 1 automogul ("The Morris Car is a Ford with an Oxford Education"), his 62nd, Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, his 67th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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