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Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...days in court, it was announced that the case had been settled privately. In a 1940 Los Angeles baby suit the indignant mother was awarded $3,500. Mrs. Louise Mahoney, 18, charged that during her ten days in the hospital nurses brought her three different babies, a blond, a brunet and a redhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: That's Not My Baby | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Bayou du Large's people, blond and blue-eyed, are a striking contrast to the usual brunet Louisianians. Most of the villagers are of English-Scottish descent; possibly their forebears came from ships captured by Jean Lafitte's pirates in the early 19th Century. Some of the oldsters recall their parents speaking of origins "up North." The villagers drawl their words more like Kentuckians than Louisianians, use the expression "a fur piece" to describe a considerable distance. When they are not trapping, they fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christmas Deferred | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...account. . . . Whatsoever judgment is made before knowing the result of this investigation would be adventurous. Furthermore, it would be imprudent." The Argentine Foreign Office stiffly suggested that the matter was not serious because: 1) the ship had not sunk; 2) no one was killed. In Washington Attaché Alberto Brunet was ordered to go cast a professionally analytical eye on the damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Axis on the Spot | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Meantime the Palace of Fine Arts at the San Francisco Fair announced a similar show. Its main attraction: buxom, brunet Mexican Bombshell Diego Rivera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Muralist on Show | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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