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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph: rooms (they bagged four at the Plaza).Second triumph: train reservations. Said the Prince when he heard reservations were hard to get: "Charter a train for us!" In fact he settled for space aboard two different public trains on two different roads. Southward bound: Prince, Princess, daughter, two grandchildren, a governess, and a valet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...million) came from the late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Goodbye, Mr. Perry | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Said Bowles: "If any auto dealer complains of hardships to himself, his children or his grandchildren, I would like to get up a little pool to buy his distributorship. I can't think of anything I'd rather own in the next three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Dealers Take Warning | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment. The Bradens have five children, three grandchildren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Democracy's Bull | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

General Alexander M. Patch crawled into a baby pen in Staunton, Va., provided news photographers with the week's high in pictures of generals fraternizing with children. He took his ease (see cut) with Grandchildren A. M. Patch IV and Julie Drummond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

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