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...Germany to be educated. There she fell in love with a German prince (un-named), and was taken to Madrid, where she fell in love with a bullfighter. The impressionable young lady then returned to San Francisco, married, was almost killed in a train wreck on her honeymoon, got a divorce, hired a 70-ft. schooner and set out for the South Seas, scandalizing the missionaries in Hawaii on the way by taking part in an "orgy," the precise details of which she does not disclose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women's Words | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

...days before President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he lost his Attorney General-designate when old Thomas J. Walsh, on his second honeymoon, dropped-dead of a heart attack in his Pullman drawing room. Following year a throat disease forced Secretary of the Treasury William Hartman Woodin out of the Cabinet, later killed him. Last week Death struck its first square blow at the Roosevelt Cabinet when Secretary of War George Henry Dern died after a long illness in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. He had suffered a severe attack of influenza in Charleston, S. C. last spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Death of Dern | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

Last week two distinguished theatrical estivators, Victoria Regina and Idiot's Delight, returned to Manhattan. Of sturdier stuff were six other shows (Boy Meets Girl, Dead End, Mulatto, New Faces, On Your Toes, Pre-Honeymoon) which had run straight through the heat and lassitude of a Broadway summer. Mean- time, Three Men On a Horse was entering its third season, Tobacco Road its fourth as the 1936-37 theatre year opened with the presentation of Spring Dance by Philip Barry and two Smith College alumnae. With the possible exception of Anne Nichols' Pre-Honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Season | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...priggish, a pampered only son. He bought Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing his pet. As the young couple began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine Lives | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...pick up a wedding party at Prides Crossing, Mass, brought idlers to the station of that socialite village north of Boston near dusk one afternoon last week. They wanted to see the throwing of rice and shoes, the shouting of good wishes at newlyweds who could afford a honeymoon in a private car. The train arrived, waited. The sun neared setting. The air cooled. At a few minutes before 8 o'clock an ambulance drove up to the rear platform of the private car. Gawpers saw a heavy-set old man on a stretcher whisked out of the ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mr. Morgan's Misery | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

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