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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read a paid advertisement last week in the Aberdeen Press and Journal. But more was involved than a change of name. The Hon. Elizabeth Forbes-Sempill, second daughter of the 18th Baron Sempill (who is also a baronet), had always been a mannish sort of a girl. A brilliant student who loved to flex her muscles in such masculine pastimes as hunting, shooting and fishing, she deplored the necessity of making a formal debut in London clad in feminine frills. Later on, after getting her M.D., she became the popular local doctor in the Scottish village of Alford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Bit Different | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Dominated by "guilt, fear, and loneliness"-already, in short, exhibiting the characteristic ailments of his era-Arthur at the age of ten discovered all by himself the characteristic cure of his generation. He decided, after reading the story in which Baron Munchausen yanks himself out of the mire by the hair of his own head, that he could save his own soul in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Inside the Holocaust | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...Like all gifted men, Colonel* Pearson has a few failings . . . President Roosevelt [called him] a 'chronic liar.' I can't go quite that far. Colonel Pearson sometimes tells the truth . . . It may not be intentional, but it's there . . . I estimate that Baron Munchausen's contemporary counterpart has told no less than two dozen lies about me within the past two years. Assuming I have received only my pro rata share of Baron Pearson's prevarications, this data may be projected to the conclusion that this modern Munchausen has concocted 24 falsehoods about every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Guest in the House | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...somehow this Merry Widow is not always as lighthearted as it might be, perhaps because the makers of the picture tell the story as if they meant it. Valuable touches of insouciance are provided by Una Merkel as the widow's maid and Richard Haydn as a Marshovian baron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 8, 1952 | 9/8/1952 | See Source »

...Baron Erik von Frenckell, Helsinki's mayor, proclaimed this week the traditional "Olympic truce" (a throwback to the B.C. days when the Greeks called off their local wars to celebrate the games), there were a few inevitable rhubarbs. Both Nationalist and Red China, along with East Germany, suddenly and belatedly demanded admission for their teams. Bulgaria, which drew Russia in a first-round soccer match, complained bitterly when a soccer "unknown," The Netherlands West Indies, drew a first-round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Strength of Ten | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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