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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reynolds Tobacco Co. fortune, trying to make do on $31,672 a week (after taxes). They met at the 1950 Knickerbocker charity ball in Manhattan (she had just divorced Husband No. 2; he was still married to Wife No. 2), were wed in 1952. She fondly called him "Buck Rabbit." He endearingly called her "Doe Rabbit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Marriage-Go-Round | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...Reynoldses settled down to a quiet life in a Manhattan flat, a Palm Beach mansion, an estate near Winston-Salem, N.C., a Monte Carlo apartment, a Tahiti bungalow and a 30-room hideaway on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia. Every year, Buck Rabbit gave Doe Rabbit $125,000 in spending money, about $40,000 worth of jewels-and, presumably, all the Camels, Winstons and Salems she could smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Marriage-Go-Round | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

...somehow the idyl ended. Reynolds preferred to spend most of his time on Sapelo Island, with its two tennis courts, two swimming pools and its airstrip. There, Muriel's only real companion was Buck Rabbit, whose disposition had been considered none too amiable even before he came down with pulmonary emphysema (a serious lung disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Georgia: The Marriage-Go-Round | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Increasing use of Widener has meant breakdowns in the circulation department's present manual filing system that couldn't be solved, according to Paul H. Buck, director of the University Library, even by doubling the number of young women who do the routine work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IBM Machines Replacing Girls | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

...over-all size of the library staff, however, should not decrease with the advent of the machines. "It will just grow less rapidly than it has been growing," commented Buck. He noted that the filing staff has an extremely high rate of turn-over, with the young women employed there advancing to higher positions or leaving the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IBM Machines Replacing Girls | 1/14/1963 | See Source »

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