Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week set their watches ahead, lost one hour of sleep with the advent of Daylight Saving Time. Principal nonconformist was John D. Rockefeller Jr., who, like the New York Central, does not believe in D. S. T. Last week Mr. Rockefeller's secretaries, as they must each spring, began carrying two watches to keep in time with their boss and with the world...
...paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania Museum's severest critic, Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes of Marion, Pa., who himself owns the most magnificent Renoirs in the U. S. Setting foot within the museum for the first time since he began to picket it, (TIME, Nov. 29), Dr. Barnes warmed up enough to point out with admiration such of Renoir's children's portraits as Enfant à Cuiller...
...grownup. He wanted to marry blonde, lissome Actress Betty Grable. Mrs. Bernstein telephoned Betty's mother. "If Betty thinks she's marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released this week...
...part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion of the right of privacy...
...world, he is probably the most durable as well. A onetime diamond setter, Peter Foley has been running in almost every Boston Marathon since the turn of the century. When he reached his 55th birthday, the Boston Athletic Association refused to accept his entry blank. Undaunted, Peter Foley began to run his own individual marathon. For years he used to start just one minute after the official field, but gave up that practice when he found that his friends couldn't find him among the crowd of also-rans. This year he gave himself a good head start...