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Britain's Princess Margaret arrived in Paris for a busy four days of footloose fun. At the Hertford Hospital charity ball, she mingled with the best of the smart set, danced with Paul Auriol, son of the French President, and also came face to face with a brash American custom. A young Army civilian employee from Chicago threw royal protocol aside, introduced himself and asked for the next dance. Margaret was diplomatically delighted" to meet him, but, she said, "I'm terribly sorry, I seem to be booked up just now." The next evening at the home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

Balance of Power. In Hertford, England, running for county alderman, C.E.G.B. Goad cast his ballot for his rival, lost the election by one vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

FELIX A. E. PIRANI Hertford College Oxford, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrophonist Troxell | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Died. Ethel May Dell, fiftyish, prolific author of 16 super-saccharine best-selling novels (Greatheart, The Hundredth Chance, The Lamp in the Desert, etc.); in Hertford, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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