Word: edna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...detector won. In Brooklyn last week Mrs. Edna Hancock, who had pitted her word against that of a lie detector in a recent rape case (TIME, Jan. 10), was indicted for perjury. Her alleged rapist, Murray Goldman, was saved from a ten-year prison sentence...
...Marine women come from many places and occupations. Tall, dark-haired 2nd Lieut. Jane Greenough, who is now an aerial photo interpretation officer at nearby Cherry Point, is a graduate of Vassar and was working in the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum when she joined the Corps. Private Edna Thomas, now an aerial gunnery instructor, was an elementary schoolteacher in Savonburg, Kans. 1st Lieut. Virginia O'Meara, who wears her greying hair upswept, was an assistant scriptwriter in Hollywood before she started her own insurance business in Bayside...
...detector," said Mrs. Edna Hancock, "lied...
Editor of Vogue itself is Edna Woolman Chase (mother of Actress-Author Ilka), an amber-eyed, blue-haired, 66-year-old. An able, experienced judge of style trends, Mrs. Chase started in the circulation department 38 years ago, in no time was writing picture captions. Sample: "Mauve is the prevailing nuance of the hour . . . even to the ear posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British...
...EDNA L. MCFARLAND...