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Dates: during 1930-1939
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¶ Baroness Giacoma Giorgio Levi, born Maud Rosenbaum, is the daughter of Chicago Grainman Emanuel S. Rosenbaum. She married her Italian Baron, a polo-player, in 1927, divorced him last winter. Spectators were not surprised to see Baroness Levi at Forest Hills last week. She is No. 7 in U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jacobs' Third | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

As a stern example to nature-loving but drought-smitten subjects of King George, Queen Mary has had every one of the lawn sprinklers at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle turned firmly off (TIME, June 25). Last week when Their Majesties' favorite granddaughter, Princess Elizabeth ("Baby Betty") appeared at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queen's Grass | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

When Ford's daily quota of 5,000 automobiles is all but reached the whistle blows, the music slurs downward as wheels stop spinning. A worker shakes his head unhappily as he reads a sign: PRODUCTION TODAY, 5,000; COMPLETED, 4,999. When everyone has gone the "V 8...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rhapsody in Steel | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

When Bette (pronounced "Betty") Davis went to summer camp, she was thrown into the water daily to wash the mascara from her eyebrows. They are naturally black. Her hair is ash blonde, dyed pale yellow; her enormous eyes, blue. This combination caused Carl Laemmle Jr. to decline to hire her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 9, 1934 | 7/9/1934 | See Source »

Two proud pleasures were Postmaster General Farley's last week. One morning he drove to his office on Pennsylvania Avenue near 12th Street. Instead of stopping as usual at the old Post Office Department Building, that blackened square of granite with cone-capped towers, one of the finest examples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Proud Pleasures | 6/18/1934 | See Source »

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