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...therefore, have been in a spirit of democracy as well as commerce that Producer John Hawkesworth authorized a series of pop paperback "autobiographies," which purport to reveal "the never-before-told secrets" of Hudson, the butler, Head Houseparlormaid Rose and the renegade Sarah. But good grief! As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Roads to Eaton Place | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...heart disease; in Philadelphia. His specialty was the recovery of stolen jewels after the police had given up. Some of his recoveries: $600,000 of Mrs. James P. Donahue's jewels in 1925, $100,000 of Joshua S. Cosden's in 1924, $185,000 of Mrs. Margaret Hawkesworth Bell's in 1935. His confidential methods of recovery led to his conviction for perjury and the revocation of his detective license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...ALAN S. HAWKESWORTH...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...worldling" TIME meant that Scientist Hawkesworth, like all astronomers, was earth-bound in his observations of the universe, not that he was personally selfish or materialistic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

...TIME, July 6, Philosopher Hawkesworth states as an imaginary problem- 'A man . . . driving . . . along Pennsylvania Avenue at 40 m.p.h.," etc. Philosopher Hawkesworth protests that celestial problems cannot be solved by terrestrial reasoning, but "a man driving along Pennsylvania Avenue at 40 m.p.h." is the very problem that Washington has to face, and the death rate proves that only by clear terrestrial common sense can the celestial problem be solved for over 100 people a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 20, 1936 | 7/20/1936 | See Source »

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