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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daughter, Daughter. She had red hair and green eyes, and a camellia-white complexion. They called her Magda, a good name for a voluptuous beauty of her type. She joined the Greek Orthodox Church, though her mother was a Roman Catholic Viennese dancer and her father a Jewish merchant (variously described as a moneylender, druggist, innkeeper, garageman). The story goes that Papa Lupescu was very fond of Carol, and liked to refer to him and Magda as "my children." Once, when Carol's brother Nicolas recklessly proposed to marry a commoner, Papa Lupescu chided Magda: "Daughter, daughter! What kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: At Long Last | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Married. Maria Elizabeth Sieber, 22, plumpish actress daughter of svelte Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich; and William Riva, 27, Manhattan artist; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Beryl is already an experienced trouper, and a trouper's daughter. She was born in a dressing room of a Plymouth theater. At three, she saved her father's vaudeville act. He had called for volunteer singers from the audience and got no response; in desperation he sent backstage for her, and she toddled out to sing Constantinople. By the time she was 14, father had a dance band and she became its featured singer. After the war, securely established as England's top singer of softly swung ballads, she got a key BBC show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rival for Dinah? | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Divorced. Marshall Field IV, 31, who is learning to be a journalist on his father's Chicago Sun; by Joanne Bass Field, 31, daughter of New Hampshire's onetime Governor Robert P. Bass; after nine years, two children; in Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Industrial College, a U.S. Army major in the Spanish-American War, and friend of every U.S. President since Hayes; in Philadelphia. Spry, spare Wright was founder and active head of Philadelphia's Citizens & Southern Bank & Trust Co. vengefully named after a Georgia bank that had once insulted his daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 14, 1947 | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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