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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New York divorcée whose engagement to another great-great-grandson of Queen Victoria's had just been announced. Her name alone was enough to make Mayfair gasp-it was Mrs. Simpson. This time, however, there was no danger that a romance would rock a throne. Romaine Simpson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Ring for Cinderella | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

In pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Ring for Cinderella | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Despite its high Hollywood gloss, the story is told with considerable honesty and understated force. It will therefore doubtless irritate both professional Southerners and professional champions of racial equality. Back to her native South goes a white-skinned Negro girl (Jeanne Grain), who has "passed" in the North while studying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Love & the Main Force. In Moscow, Freddie Smythe becomes Kazimir, a fine, upstanding Polish proletarian; the lady lion tamer is transformed into a lovely Polish girl who sings of love, faithfulness and sunshine over Warsaw. Kazimir and Ludviga got a job with Cowder (now spelled Kuder, rhymes with cruder) so...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Dollar Princess | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Live It. James's ghosts represent not so much creatures intended to frighten readers on a lonely evening as obsessive reminders of the experiences his characters have evaded and the responsibilities they have shirked. A girl is haunted by the ghost of her mother's neglected lover; a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sermons from the Pit | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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