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...University of Colorado, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins, where he took his M.D., interned, and won a prized Carnegie fellowship in embryology. In the '30s, he built up a good practice in Manhattan, where he was on the staff of three hospitals. His marriage (childless) ended in divorce in 1942. That year he moved to Greenwich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Life Story | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...estate and the largest private mansion (365 rooms) in England. Why had Toby waited so long? Neither he nor Tom had a chance for succession until two years ago when the eighth earl was killed in an air crash. The ninth earl is 67 and childless, and Toby (if legitimate) is his lawful heir. This week, as their lawyers droned on, Toby and Tom came to court almost identically dressed in bowler hats, stiff collars, maroon ties. Each denied any animosity toward the other; it was just a family matter that the law should clarify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Toby or Tom? | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...told the Associated Press that military leaders are also considering a request to broaden the age limits for inductees, with the new maximum applying to "single men and childless married...

Author: By William M. Simmons, | Title: Defense Heads Favor UMS, Seek to Extend Service For Draftees | 1/5/1951 | See Source »

...unworthy of Scripter-Director George (Miracle on 34th Street) Seaton, who bolted it together out of a deservedly unproduced play by Harry (Here Comes Mr. Jordan) Segall. It concerns two angels (Clifton Webb and Edmund Gwenn) who are sent on an earthly mission to inspire procreation by a selfishly childless theatrical couple (Joan Bennett and Robert Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...childless Stantons live in a five-room Manhattan apartment that glitters with glass, polished woods and geometric abstractions. It looks a little like a wing of the Museum of Modern Art, but somehow seems to be comfortable, too. Stanton himself decorated the apartment, as well as his own and several other CBS offices'. He is probably one of the few men in the U.S. in his income group who has neither a country place nor any servants. Ruth Stanton does all the cooking and cleaning in the apartment. Says she: "It makes for flexibility and it's good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: At the End of the Rainbow | 12/4/1950 | See Source »

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