Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their stories were almost identical. Maine-born Mildred Elizabeth Gillars, 47, went to Europe in 1929 to study music. When war came she stayed on in Berlin, broadcasting a mixture of sirupy music and defeatist propaganda to U.S. troops. Los Angeles-born Iva Toguri d'Aquino, 32, went to Japan in 1941 "to see a sick aunt," was caught there by Pearl Harbor. Along with half a dozen English-speaking Japanese girls, she became the corporate voice which Pacific troops nicknamed Tokyo Rose. Just before war's end, she married a Portuguese newsman...
...connection with a Communist plot to infiltrate the U.S. Government was Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. When he appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 23), he admitted knowing many of the others also named by ex-Communists Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers. But he denied that he had ever been a Communist...
...sampling the King's champagne. At a recent party, the King told her not to drink any more sherry. "If you don't let me have another glass," said Margaret promptly, "I won't launch your old ships for you." The King gave in. Once when Elizabeth tried to discipline her she snapped: "You can go look after your Empire...
...Charming Fellow." When round-faced Harry Dexter White, onetime Assistant Treasury Secretary, took the stand, more flat contradictions went into the record. He said that he did not know Elizabeth Bentley or Whittaker Chambers (TIME, Aug. 16). As to Chambers' story that he had pleaded with White to break away from the Communist party line: "Something I would remember very definitely would be if a gentleman met me and tried to convince me not to go into or not to leave a Communist ring. That I would have remembered. That...
...flock to see her latest picture, a Technicolored trifle called That Lady in Ermine (20th Century-Fox), will be bitterly disappointed if it is not very much like the last 15 Grable pictures. By sedulously being her pretty, blonde, brittle self, in one cinemusical after another, St. Louis-born Elizabeth Ruth Grable has become one of the highest salaried (close to $300,000 a year) women in the world...