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...could, went away to school, then to Paris, where she took Fellow-Student Jacques as her lover. She hoped big things for Jacques, but when he felt the call of the mild and returned to the provinces to be a petty lawyer, she cut him out of her system. Edmond, son of a potent international banker, caught her on the rebound and asked her to marry him, though he could give her only a banker's love. Denise took him, hoped she could make him into a world-force. But his father thought one in the family was enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Round & Round | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

...there. So did Actress Gish, as a child. When Central City's boom days were over the theatre was closed. Lately the University of Denver decided to use it for annual play festivals, of which last week's was the first. Patrons paid for hard hickory chairs. Director Robert Edmond Jones designed a stage setting lighted by old oil lamps. Composer Macklin Marrow wrote special music for the performance. For first-night and succeeding audiences Actress Gish displayed her famed wanness, made patrons sniffle during the death scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Glorifier's End | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

...acquired 1922) he has bitterly attacked what he thought was graft, sham, inefficiency, stupidity in the aeronautics industry and in Government functions affecting aviation. All but fanatical on the subject of national defense, he preached the gospel of Col. William ("Billy") Mitchell. Last year he hired Major General James Edmond Fechet, retired head of the Army Air Corps, as "national defense editor" of Aero Digest. In his editorial column "Air?Hot & Otherwise" Publisher Tichenor consistently baits Senator Hiram Bingham, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the National Aeronautic Association, occasionally the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. He has been known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Steps Tichenor | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Auxiliary Archbishop Mitty), 158 bishops, eight assistant bishops, 15 vicars apostolic, 16 abbots. From New York would go rich Contractor Patrick McGovern and onetime supreme Court Justice Daniel Florence Cohalan. President Mary C. Duffy of the Catholic Daughters of America sailed last week. From Australia went Premier Edmond John Hogan of Victoria. Among the visiting Cardinals: Lorenzo Lauri, Papal Legate, Paris' Verdier. Palermo's Lavitrano, Belgium's van Roey, Poland's Hloud, Westminster's Bourne. Shipping lines got up special tours, arranged for masses to be held on board. In Dublin Bay many a liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: In Dublin | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

...Madeleine Slade, St. Gandhi's caretaker and most devoted disciple, who came out of prison fortnight ago, gave her first Press interview last week. Everyone knows that she, a tall, grave woman with a gentle voice and a delicate, jet-black mustache, was the daughter of Admiral Sir Edmond John Warre Slade; that she gave up a position in British society for which she does not seem particularly suited to seek spiritual peace caring for the Mahatma. Until last week she never told her own story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ex-Butterfly | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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