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Dean Sherman and Miss Edith G. Stedman, Director of the Appointment Bureau, are speakers for today's session, at which attendance will be taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Concentration Talks Begin for '52 | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

Anyone who claimed a strike became a celebrity. Buxom Edith Lacombe, prettiest demoiselle around, said she had six radioactive hectares. The press crowned her "Miss Uranium." She promised to write a novel about Saint-Sylvestre and uranium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-NIners | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Giraud, 70, French hero of three wars (he was cited for bravery 13 times, decorated 16 times); of intestinal cancer and pernicious anemia; in Dijon, France. Lean, towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Soldier Giraud, who escaped from the Germans in World War I with the help of Nurse Edith Cavell, was captured again by the Germans in World War II, during the Sedan breakthrough. He escaped again, made his way with Allied help to Gibraltar - and frustration. He had been picked by the Allies to command French forces in Africa after the invasion in 1942, but sly Admiral Darlan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...State Representative Edwin Snow rose on the floor of the Idaho legislature, was recognized by the chair-and asked pretty, redheaded State Representative Edith Miller to marry him. Said thirtyish Miss Miller, after order had been restored: ". . . on a point of personal privilege I accept Mr. Snow's proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 14, 1949 | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

After the introduction, Dr. Edith Sitwell strode on stage and up to the lectern. She did not, as some had predicted, arrive on broomstick, astride a lion, or floating on a stream of gurgling honey. She was clad in her poetical uniform (as publicized in Life): a long, green dress, heavy coils of silver around her wrists, and a floor-sweeping, golden cloak with slits for her hands, which clutched her two books, and a large, black, and jarringly prosaic leather handbag...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: An Evening With the Sitwells | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

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