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Died. Robert Woods Bliss, 86, adroit U.S. career diplomat, former Minister to Sweden (1923-27) and Ambassador to Argentina (1927-33), who with his wife, the former Mildred Barnes (heiress to the Fletcher's Castoria fortune), in 1940 gave their historic Georgetown estate, Dumbarton Oaks, to his alma mater Harvard, which turned it into a center of Byzantine studies and a meeting place for statesmen, notably for talks leading to the birth of the United Nations; of cancer; in Washington...
...Association; Henry Ford II, an angel of the Detroit Symphony; IBM's Thomas J. Watson Jr.,* and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg, who solved the Met's union contract impasse (TIME, Sept. 8). The grandes dames were out in force-Rose Kennedy, the President's mother; the Castoria heiress Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, and the indomitable Alice Roosevelt Longworth-along with such assorted guests from other fields as Pundit Walter Lippmann, Labor Chief George Meany, Oilman Edwin Pauley, and New York's Mayor Robert Wagner (who played the fiddle as a boy). And, since the party...
...Robert Woods Bliss is heiress of the Castoria millions ("Children Cry For It"), and of an unassailably long Washington ancestry. She and her ex-diplomat husband quietly entertain a small, gilt-edged group of diplomats, officials and cave dwellers in their Georgetown home...
...avoid any repetition, future batches will contain the usual amount of sugar, war or no war. A few spoonfuls of each batch will be tried on animals. To make sure that no customer gets any of the old, bad batches, the new Castoria package will be distinguished by a green band...
...survey has shown that seven out of ten U.S. mothers with small children know of Castoria's difficulties, that three-quarters of the women who know about it have the story straight. Eighty-five per cent of all those questioned are perfectly willing to use Castoria when it comes on the market again, about Sept...