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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arranged by his adopted daughter (whom he adopted when she was 46), were famed for their harp music, original poetry, fruit juices, ice cream and the number of reporters present. At one party Dr. Pease told the press about a horse of his acquaintance who had jumped off a cliff after some tea leaves had accidentally been mixed with his feed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFORM: Beautiful People | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Died. Foxhall Parker Keene, 74, onetime leading U.S. poloist, member of the first U.S. international polo team in 1886; at Ayer's Cliff, Quebec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 6, 1941 | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...brought the most aluminum to her door. It lasted 45 seconds, by the stop watch of Cecil B. De Mille. Running comment was provided by Mrs. Clifford: "You old fool. . . . What's an old man like you doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

After dinner, three Harvard students, Norman Knowlton '42, Cliff Goodman '42, and Dave Hart '43 escorted the marines to Wellesley, where dates had been arranged for them. When asked the stock question if they preferred Wellesley to Radcliffe, Jones replied naively, "I'll tell you when we get back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two British marines Spend Mid-War Shore Leave at Harvard, Wellesley | 9/25/1941 | See Source »

...pride and opened its tennis courts to all who could pay, has swallowed again and let a Naval officers' club come right indoors. Mrs. Herbert Shipman, widow of the late Suffragan Bishop of New York, is offering to any hotelman who can pay for it the sprawling Cliff Walk estate built by her late, famed father, Edson Bradley. Furnishings of fabulous Rosecliff, $2,500,000 estate of the late Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, will be auctioned on Bastille Day. Reported hungry for the house and grounds are the Navy and the United Service Organizations. Princess Miguel (Anita Stewart) de Braganza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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