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...Susanna Desborough is facing an embarrassing problem for a real estate agent. She is losing her own home in a foreclosure proceeding. Desborough has been unable to make the $825 monthly payments on the house in the Chatsworth section of Los Angeles, and now is more than $10,000 in arrears. Valley Federal Savings & Loan Association, which holds the mortgage, plans to sell the house next month. Says Desborough: "The situation became like a monster that kept growing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Califoreclosure | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

Radcliffe also announced yesterday the appointment of Mrs. Ethel M. Desborough of Nova Scotia as head resident of Whitman Hall, to replace Mrs. Howard Denning, who is returning to England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Selects Faculty Couple As Moors Hall Head Residents | 5/13/1959 | See Source »

...adored his wife, and the only other woman in whom he ever showed so much as "interest"' was a rugged member of the London Technical Education Board. Placed next to that noted Edwardian beauty, Lady Desborough, at dinner, Sidney only wondered why she had such a "silly trick of shutting her eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Among the Statistics | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Cowper Madonna is another Raphael less well known than the Alba but considered by many a critic to be a superior work of art. Lord Duveen of Millbank bought it from Lady Desborough for $800,000 for Mr. Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mellon & Madonna | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...Speech. After Lord Desborough's introduction, embroidered with such quips and quiddities as all Yeomen of the guard insist on. Ambassador Dawes stood up, pulled a typed manuscript from his pocket, apologized for reading his speech, but said its importance made reading necessary. The Pilgrims leaned forward on their chairs to catch the sound of his thin, high-pitched staccato voice. The major diplomats at the speakers' table were less excited. Earlier in the day Diplomat Dawes had asked them to read his speech in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Birdsong & Findhorn | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

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