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Word: bettye (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grisou is really Guimbeau's cat. The Marquis Georges de Visdelou-Guimbeau is Freddy's boyhood friend from Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The night of the murder Freddy and Guimbeau gave a party for friends (Nancy was in Maine with her mother). Afterwards Freddy drove two wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Ruffled Sheet | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

What should pop up in the Hudson Valley last week but Archeology itself. And the ferret that caused the pop was no Archeologist, Ph. D., but a Girl Scout. Ten-year-old Betty Lou Norris of Brooklyn and other Scouts had listened to lectures on Indians, went hunting rock shelters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Scout | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

A Brooklyn girl named Betty Smith last fortnight made more news than a city editor could shake a stick of type at. She

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Happened in Flatbush | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Newsmaking Betty Smith, who described herself as a onetime "third-rate actress in second-rate companies," also: 1) pocketed $55,000 for the movie rights to her book; 2) publicly scratched Hollywood's eyes out when it offered her $1,200 a week ("I don't want any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Happened in Flatbush | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

But it was Betty Smith's marriage to Private Jones (first name: Joe) that finally brought about the impossible and gave a book about Brooklyn more newspaper space than the Dodgers. When Betty Smith was living in Chapel Hill, N.C., turning out unsalable one-act plays and reading the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It Happened in Flatbush | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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