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*Mrs. Frances Crane Leatherbee, of the Chicago plumbing Cranes. Her father, onetime Minister to China, was a potent backer of Father MasaRyk; her brother, Richard Teller Crane 2nd. was first U. S. Minister to Czechoslovakia. The Jan Masaryks are now divorced.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHO-SLOVAKIA: We Are Tough | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Cinema tributes to historical celebrities are often ungratefully received. Last November, descendants of Ferdinand de Lesseps, who had 17 children, growled because Suez failed to show that their progenitor had married. Last week, after a Hollywood preview of Jesse James, Miss Jo Frances James, not a bank robber but a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 23, 1939 | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

The third George Fisher Baker grew up inconspicuously as many a rich boy does. From St. Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MONEY & BANKING: Baker's Boy | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

At a Manhattan night club in the basement of a onetime church, café-society playboys (including Peter Arno, Lucius Beebe, Jules Glaenzer) gave a coming-out party to end all coming-out parties. Debutante: Wilhelmina ("Tugboat Minnie") Frances Vandenbaard, professional model (under the name of Wilma Baard) and daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

No U. S. Steel official last week would admit to such plans. But the town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio was so worried about its 1,600-man plant that it appealed to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins. Four other Big Steel plants (in Monessen and New Castle, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Finest Yet | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

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