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...night last month the managing editor of the Boston Herald got a longdistance call from Reporter Alan Frazer, speaking from one of the Canadian maritime provinces. Reporter Frazer's voice was excited, muffled, guarded. Said he: "You won't hear from me for a couple of weeks or so, but don't worry. I've got a surprise for you, and it will be good. I can't talk about it because a censor is standing over my shoulder." Then he hung up quickly. Not a word since then has Managing Editor Robert Choate heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Correspondent in Trouble | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Last week New Orleans returned the call with an exhibition of Southern U. S. art at the cheerful new International Club Salon in palm-shaded San Salvador. At the show's formal opening, U. S. Minister Robert Frazer, International Railways of Central America Manager Herbert Wilson and a swarm of Cabinet Ministers and bank presidents elbowed some 500 of El Salvador's other leading citizens for a look. Curiously, the most striking items of Southern U. S. art in the show (example: The Red Mill by New Orleans Painter Caroline Wogan Durieux) looked more Latin than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hands Across the Gulf | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Twelve good-time Charleys in Natchez, Miss, formed the Moneywasters Social Club two years ago. All were Negroes: William Clay, Jake George Minor, Charley Hall, Ed Frazer, eight others. Just to have a convivial 13, they let in William Powell Jr. Their objects were exclusively wasteful and social: to drink and play cards, throw dances for the rest of the 9,600 Negroes in Natchez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

...Frazer, a propertied man, also something of a philanthropist, was vice president of the Moneywasters. He was also operator of the Rhythm Night Club, a big (200 by 40 ft.) shack of wood and corrugated iron on St. Catherine Street in Natchez' darktown. He leased the building from Mrs. C. Ferriday Byrnes, who rates even higher among Natchez whites than her tenant did among Natchez Negroes. The Negroes who went to Moneywaster dances at the Rhythm were mostly laborers, carpenters, waiters, servants in the best homes of Natchez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 22, 1939 | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

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