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Last year Publisher Hearst thought of revamping his Smart Set to compete with Publisher Nast's civilized Vanity Fair and the bright New Yorker (TIME, June 16, 1930). Out of work at the time was bald, sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went...
...Adams, fortyish, has been flying as a passenger since 1914, has toured most of Europe, the West Indies and the U. S. by air. She has never attempted to become a pilot. A good friend of Dr. Hugo Eckener, she was the first paying woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in the Graf Zeppelin (Lady Grace Drummond Hay, Hearstling, preceded her but as a dead-head). In Manhattan last year she met Dr. Claude Dornier, offered $11,000 for passage in his huge flying boat for its much touted flight direct to the U. S. When the plane finally made...
Wedding Bells? If the opening of Parliament and the new "Closed Door To Russia" policy of Canada seemed of major importance last week, there was also no small interest in a persistent, undenied report that Canada's "First Lady of Parliament Hill"* is about to wed. Fortyish, Miss Mildred Bennett keeps house for her brother the Prime Minister, aged 60. She refused to confirm or deny last week that she plans to marry His Excellency William Duncan Herridge, K. C., D. S. O., M. C., newly appointed Canadian Minister to the U. S. (TIME, March 16), aged...
Engaged. Vera, Countess of Cathcart, fortyish, divorced wife of the late George Cathcart, 5th Earl of Cathcart, previously Vera Fraser of Cape Town, later the widow of Capt. de Grey Warter of the 4th Dragoon Guards; and Sir Rowland Frederic William Hodge, seventyish; famed shipbuilder; in London, a week after the marriage of Lady Cathcart's son Henry de Grey Warter to Mabel Bowers Rean of British vaudeville. In 1926 Lady Cathcart was temporarily refused entry to the U. S. in a famed case of "moral turpitude." Three years prior she had gone to Cape Town with the Earl...
When the clerk of the U. S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah, began to read the court minutes one morning last week, no one took much notice of a plain middle-fortyish woman who sat on the front bench, apparently listening. Most eyes were engaged in watching Judge Tillman Davis Johnson settle himself behind his bench for a morning's work. Judge Johnson is 69 and not undistinguished in appearance. Few of the people in the courtroom even noticed the plain lady when she rose from her seat and approached the bench with a folded magazine...