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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dignified ladies of Manhattan's first families have been going into Charles & Co. for decades to get the best in damson preserves and Cheddar cheese and other good things. Last week some of them went in to order the famous Charles fruit baskets for friends going off to sea. "Madam," said the clerks, "we have only a few left. We cannot promise." Charles & Co., last of Manhattan's big, elderly, fine-food shops, was selling...
Marriage Revealed. Sir Oswald Mosley, 42, leader of Great Britain's black-shirted Fascists; and The Honorable Diana Freeman-Mitford, 28, whom Adolf Hitler once called "the ideal Nordic woman"; both for the second time; in Munich, a year ago. Because the best man, Reichsführer Hitler, had the records impounded, the marriage was kept secret. The bride's younger sister Unity Valkyrie has been booed and stoned in England, once was arrested in Czechoslovakia because of her open admiration for Hitler...
Author of the best-selling novel Europa, Robert Briffault was born in London 62 years ago, practiced medicine in New Zealand, was twice decorated during the War. When the Munich Pact was signed, he returned his decorations to the King. Under its grand title and despite isolated passages of startling invective, The Decline and Fall of the British Empire seems petty, and its criticism is so undiscriminating that readers may fear Briffault would not like the English even if they were good...
...Best-seller lists are generally compounded of publishers' ballyhoo and booksellers' hopes, do not include children's books or reprints. TIME'S list, arranged in order of nationwide sales, is based on actual sales for last month, supplied by leading U. S. bookstores...
...annual Freshman Amateur Show will be held on next Thursday evening in the Union. Prizes will be awarded to the best contestants, who will be determined by the decisions of the three judges, Dean Chance, Dean Bowditch and Colonel Apted...