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Down a gangplank in Jersey City after almost three years as a prisoner of General Franco marched Flier Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, and bussed his blonde wife, Edith Rogers Dahl, who helped to publicize him by sending her picture to General Franco with a plea that she should not be made a widow (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...songs and stories, but they are some of the most useful members of the community," chirped Miss Horsbrugh pleasantly. "I speak with feeling, being one of them!" When Health's Horsbrugh ventured to say that many females of from 60 to 65 are "tired women," Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill shrilled earnestly: "What about men?" Laborite Andrew McLaren cracked: "Men are tired all their lives!" Sneered truculent extremist Laborite David Kirkwood: "I don't think I ever heard a better example of Her Master's Voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Franco lines in the civil war. He became Nationalist Spain's best-known U. S. prisoner when his blonde dancer wife sent her picture with a plea for mercy to Francisco Franco and got the Generalissimo a lot of bad publicity by publishing his reply.† Said Edith Dahl in Philadelphia, where she is doing a Spanish dance number: "Maybe we'll settle down and raise a family." Also looking forward to Dahl's arrival were Los Angeles police, who want him for passing bad checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...Collector Bishop was rich enough to stand the Galleries' losses, ready enough to leave its conduct to President Hiram Parke and Vice President Otto Bernet. When he died in 1935, sales were picking up again. But two years later his beneficiaries, Widow Amy Bend Bishop and Friend-Secretary Edith Nixon, set up a new regime and made Employe Logan, who stood high in their graces, secretary-treasurer. Hiram Parke and Otto Bernet resigned. Most of the Galleries' experts, auctioneers and appraisers resigned with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Gallery Mystery | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...school with Logan in Brooklyn. They had not seen each other for 20 years. John Geery liked the look of the business and had a little money to invest. Soon the Sunday school chums were partners. Rank art amateurs both-but both good salesmen-they persuaded Widow Bishop and Edith Nixon to sell out to them for a mere $175,000. Geery made the down payment of $10,000, became secretary-treasurer. Logan paid nothing, became president. Most of the remaining experts left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art Gallery Mystery | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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