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...INTEREST OF ACCURACY TO SAY: MY BIRTH AND HABITAT ARE ON THE PINEYWOODS DRY SAND-LANDS OF THE SOUTH. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I HAVE EVER HEARD A MAN AS HOMELY AS I AM CALLED A SLICKER. YOUR LAST REFERENCE TO ME WAS AS A "BACKWOODS NOEL COWARD." THE BACKWOODS IS ACCURATE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 12, 1940 | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

THROUGH THE HOUSE DOOR-Helen Hull-Coward-McCann ($2.50). The love of a good woman is sorely tried by the inner withdrawal of an almost blind husband and the importunities of a compelling man-about-town. The child makes it a quadrangle. Neither as intent nor as interesting as Miss Hull's Experiment (TIME, Feb. 5), but well above the slop level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jul. 29, 1940 | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Renouncing her foreign title, Princess Natalie Paley, daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philippa's Day at the Fair | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...Facts were not all known last week, but many that were known were overlooked or distorted. No coward is the King of the Belgians, but a very sensitive and high-principled gentleman. He has always wanted to be a Peace King, as his father, Albert I, was a War King. So great is his abhorrence of bloodshed that he despises hunting (one of his pet projects was a bird sanctuary at his villa at Le Zoute). Above all, he is a patriot, and it was a supreme irony that his pity for his people led to the surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Why Leopold Quit | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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