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Married. Frederick Cecil ("Freddie") Bartholomew, 22, British-born child star of prewar cinema (Little Lord Fauntleroy, Captains Courageous)', and Maely Daniele, 28, his pressagent; he for the first time, she for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev., three weeks after Freddie had promised his Aunt Myllicent that he would wait two months and then have a glorious Hollywood wedding (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Like any competent physician, British-born Charles Siepmann, former BBC director, Harvard lecturer and FCC consultant, began with a documented case history of his patient. For many a suffering listener, it was the best analysis yet of radio's excesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cure-Ail | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...quarter-century he has cracked a sharp episcopal whip over his big (252 parishes), rich (1944 income, $4,000,000) diocese of New York. Last week the 79-year-old British-born cleric, who remained stubbornly unbudging two years ago when he Church's General Convention voted compulsory retirement for bishops at 72', announced that he would retire next fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ave Atque Vale | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...below zero when the men-41 specially trained Canadians, one British and five American observers-clambered up the shining aluminum sides of their 4½-ton vehicles and dropped through topside hatches into 6 ft.-by-5 ft. cabins. Young (33), British-born Lieut. Colonel Patrick Douglas Baird, 6 ft. 7 in. from the peak of his blue parka to the soles of his mukluk boots, stood waist-high and erect in the hatch of the No. 1 "snow" as it moved ponderously out of line, swung left, headed down the street. The other vehicles, each tugging two supply-laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Men against the Arctic | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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