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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I've always wanted most of all to write plays," confessed Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) to an interviewer for Vogue, "but I've never been able to get on Broadway. The novel is like a good, steady provider ... the kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: After Due Consideration | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

After working hours, Jimmy was off to parties with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. New York | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

As every British schoolboy knows, famed Lloyd's of London began 260 years ago in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, a gathering place of City insurance men. It grew into the world's most potent body of insurance underwriters, still heralds ship disasters by tolling its doleful Lutine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: A1 v. O.K. | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

The Trippes weekend at an eight-room French Provincial-style house in a patch of woods near Greenwich, Conn., hard by the Round Hill Club where "Tripper," as some golf partners call him, plays up to 36 holes a day, usually shooting in the low 80s. In the summers the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Chairmen for the weekend events are: Dance committee, Phoebe Crampton; jazz concert, Betty Bagby; banquet, Alison Mathews; tickets, Jane Johnson; publicity, Nina Ratzersdorfer; and commuter representative, Luretta Valtz. Connaught O'Connell is play chairman; Dorothy Tobkin an Helen Puro, co-directors; and Barbara Pitts, production head.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Cliffe Freshmen Plan Big Weekend To Raise Funds for Adoption of DP | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

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