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Died. Philip Ainsworth Means, 52, cautious, round-faced anthropologist-ex-explorer, Inca lore expert, speculator about "the most enigmatic and puzzling building in the U.S.," the Newport, R.I. "Old Stone Mill'';* of diabetes; in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1944 | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...showed that most of this fusty flotsam had come from Manhattan's great A. T. Stewart department store, predecessor to John Wanamaker's. But no records showed who had designed the pieces or the hotel itself. One guess was that the hotel's builder-one Seymour Ainsworth-had styled his building by the contractor's sample book, simply slapping, on brackets, gables, machine-cut wooden columns and arches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Auction This Day | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Married. Marie ("Sunny") Ainsworth, 20, onetime Powers model, onetime wife (seventh, for seven hours) of Thomas ("Tommy") Manville Jr. and lately applicant for entrance to the University of Chicago (TIME, July 17) ; and Army Lieut. Erwin D. Arvey, 27, she for the fourth time; in South Haven, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 31, 1944 | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...higher education received an unusual recruit last week. "Sunny" Ainsworth, 20, thrice-married seventh wife of Playboy Thomas ("Tommy") Franklyn Manville Jr., breezed across the University of Chicago's sweltering campus to take her three-hour aptitude test, first hurdle on her way to matriculation. Sunny was as refreshing as a breath from the Pump Room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pursuit of Knowledge | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

What the Hell. So did Sunny Ainsworth. Not that the aptitude test was hard. "I didn't do anything flashy," she said, "but I guess I got by." After the three hours' grilling in the boiler-room temperature of Cobb Hall, Sunny's slightly hennaed hair was still schoolgirlishly neat, but her academic comment was caustic. "I can't understand," she said, "why the University of Chicago gives tests like this. They're poorly made up, if you know what I mean, and I don't think they show what kind of a mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Pursuit of Knowledge | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

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