Word: daughter-in-law
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These good deeds done, generous Adolf Hitler scudded away from sweltering Berlin to cool Bayreuth for four hours of Gdtterddmmerung and a visit with British-born Winifred Wagner, daughter-in-law of the great Richard and a soul mate whose name was long coupled romantically with the Führer's. This year's Wagnerian Festival was in the spirit of Hitler's Europe: no admission tickets, fashionable guests or foreigners, but a popular lecture before each opera to explain to das Volk what Wagner is all about. It was Hitler's gift to the nation...
...Francisco courtroom two wom en glared at one another last week. One was pretty Mrs. James Rolph III, daughter-in-law of the late Governor of Califor nia. The other was buxom, bespectacled Mrs. Frank Carreaud, Texas turfwoman. What brought them to court was one of the strangest suits ever laid before a jury...
...strongly opposed to war. But when war comes on the terms it does, Valkonen abandons his pacifism, turns down a chance to leave Finland, and goes, like his patriot son, to be killed. His wife (Lynn Fontanne) stays also, prepared to defend her home, but she compels her daughter-in-law, who is expecting a child, to flee the country...
Most doctors believe, with their sainted masters, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes,* Sir William Osier and Dr. William H. Welch, that the real originator of anesthesia was Dentist William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston contemporary of Dr. Long. From San Francisco last week Dr. Morton's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Bowditch Morton, filed her filial protest. "It's a strange thing," said she, "that Farley didn't consult with the U. S. Public Health Service.[He wants] to curry favor with the South during an election year...
Divorced. James Roosevelt, 32; by Betsey Gushing Roosevelt, 31, favorite daughter-in-law of President Roosevelt; by default (TIME, March 11); in Los Angeles...