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...gave a reception for three Greek Orthodox Metropolitans, Leningrad's Bishop Alexis, the Ukraine's Archbishop Nicholas, Moscow's 76-year-old Bishop Sergei, who was brought back for the occasion by special train from Mohammedan Tartar Republic, where for two years he has been in genteel exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Kyrie Eleison | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Presumed Dead. Leslie Howard (néStainer), 50, genteel stage & screen favorite; in a Lisbon-to-London transport plane downed by the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 14, 1943 | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...week went formal notification that their streamlined, syndicated Sunday magazine section This Week has had its first change of editors. Out goes fragile, ailing Mrs. William Brown Meloney, 60, a dominating organizer who has been described as "fine lace made of cable wire." In comes her hand-picked successor, genteel William Ichabod Nichols, 37, ex-publicity man for Harvard, ex-newspaperman (A.P. correspondent at Oxford University), utilities executive (Insull), TVA promotion official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: This Week's Spirit | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...lawn tennis and was its first U.S. champion, died in Boston at 81. To Boston and Newport porch-sitters and nostalgic tennists everywhere, Dick Sears's death represented the end of an era of ruffles and parasols, roped-off lawns and sunny afternoons, lopsided tennis bats and the genteel pat of ball against languid strings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tilden's Predecessor | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Morgan who died last week was not of that breed. A tycoon by inheritance, he was not a buccaneer by nature. Born in 1867 at Irvington-on-Hudson, at the beginning of his father's career, "Jack" Morgan was brought up in a genteel tradition, educated at St. Paul's School and Harvard, served a turn in his father's expanding firm, in 1898 departed for London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: End and Beginning | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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