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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Private Mickey Rooney, 23, pint-sized cinemadolescent; and Betty Jane Rase, 18, blond, 5 ft. 7 in., Miss Birmingham of 1944, fifth placer in the 1944 Miss America competition; he for the second time; in Birmingham, Ala. Private Rooney wooed & won his beauty in a week, married her on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

In Chicago last week an attractive young woman named Betty Ryan climbed up on a speaker's stand, crossed herself and said: "In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Good evening, folks, I am glad to see you here tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Soapboxes | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Speaker Ryan was just getting warmed up when questions from the audience began to fly thick & fast: "Why is the Catholic Bible different from the Protestant Bible? Why don't Catholics read the Bible? Why did the Catholic Church chain the Bible in the Middle Ages?" Betty Ryan kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Soapboxes | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Betty Ryan and her hecklers were only putting on a demonstration, at the National Catholic Evidence Conference. But this summer she was doing the real thing in North Carolina-standing up on street corners to win converts to Catholicism, or at least explain away prejudice against it.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics on Soapboxes | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Married. Sir Thomas Beecham, 65, goateed maestro; and his second wife, Betty Humby Beecham, 36; for the second time, in a courtroom ceremony, to cover technicalities of British divorce laws before their return to England for a four months' visit; in Manhattan.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1944 | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

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