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Queen Mary was photographed dandling her seventh and newest grandchild and godchild, Prince William Henry Andrew Frederick, three-month-old son of the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. The princeling was christened fortnight ago by the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dumb Friends | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Monk" Rasputin, close adviser of the Tsarina. After the revolution, Dmitri was in line for pretendership to the throne, refused it in favor of his cousin Cyril Vladimirovitch. In 1926 he married American Heiress Audrey Emery (40 millions), was divorced in 1937. Dmitri was a brother of Grand Duchess Marie (Education of a Princess), half-brother of Princess Natalie Paley (Mrs. John C. Wilson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Duchess of Windsor hit top place in 1941-8 list of the ten-best-dressed women in the world. Fifty style authorities moved her into the spot held for five years by Mrs. Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Born. To the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester: their first child, a son; in a nursing home near London. The new Prince is fourth in succession to the throne. Preceding him : Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret Rose, the Duke of Gloucester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1941 | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

These are two records of personal suffering written by two anti-Nazi-intellectuals caught in France by the war. Feucht-wanger-author of Power, The Ugly Duchess and other notable novels-was a peace-loving, contemplative Jew of 57. Except for the stench of Naziism in his nostrils, he had no interest in politics, little sense of events to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Wall Crumbled | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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