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...bust (see p. 74); but generally the bluebloods had done what they could in the face of war-like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...women in the world. Fifty style authorities moved her into the spot held for five years by Mrs. Harrison Williams, who dropped to fourth. Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr., daughter of the late, great Dr. Harvey Cushing, tied with the late Motor Magnate Walter Chrysler's daughter, Mrs. Byron Foy, for second place. The rest of the ten, in order: Brazil's Senhora Rodman Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Thomas Shevlin, Señora Felipe A. Espil (wife of the Argentine Ambassador to the U.S.), Mrs. Robert W. Miller of San Francisco, Mrs. Robert Emmet Sherwood, Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Personable Bob Crosby looks like his brother, talks like him, resembles him no further. Singer Ruth Terry (Alexander's Ragtime Band] reveals that she has not forgotten how to sell a song; Songstress Gertrude Niesen is scarcely given a chance to. Silly shot: Comedian Eddie Foy Jr. giving commands to his platoon in such a singsong voice that the platoon breaks into a conga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Williams has lost heavily by graduation, and Holy Cross has lost Eddie Foy, its star performer, but Yale has another well-balanced array. There will probably be anew face in the Harvard lineup tomorrow for Coach Hodder has decided to make room for fast-improving Ned Tuckerman, Yardling captain of a year ago in at least one of the weekend tests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers Favored in League Match Today | 5/9/1941 | See Source »

With Dr. Houser will sail Harold B. Foy, of the American Red Cross, who will be director of accounts for the hospital, and Kingsley Van A. Gwyer, an engineer, who will supervise erection of the 126-bed, prefabricated "siege" hospital...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houser To England | 3/15/1941 | See Source »

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