Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
...still boyishly handsome, had able lieutenants. The ablest of them, squirrel-cheeked Publisher Mark Foster Ethridge, is full of go-ahead schemes. The Washington bureau was expanding ; a fine new building would replace the ancient post office the papers now live in, four blocks south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...Washington, Edward Robert Dixon was arrested on a traffic violation charge for the seventh time by the same...
Died. Dr. Dixon Ryan Fox, 57, energetic president of Union College (first nonsectarian U.S. college), and historian; of a heart attack; in Schenectady...
...June. A Dixon, Calif, newspaper ran a want ad: "Owner of a truck would like to correspond with a widow who owns two tires. Object matrimony. Send picture of tires." July. In Denver, Mrs. Martha Martin got a black eye when a stranger walked up and hit her. Said the stranger, apologetically : "I thought you were my mother...