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...there is no spring in Cambridge, the sky is wet and gray, But it's blossom time at the Shubert, chez Messrs, Lee and J. For a bit of Old Vienna is houseguest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 3/26/1941 | See Source »

...handsome man, grey and bespectacled of average height and solidly built, Dr. Fred dresses with extreme care, in contrast to tall, cadaverous Dr. Albert. The late, great Jane Addams always was houseguest of the Fred Taussigs when she went to St. Louis. Because he is so strict and meticulous in his clinical work, students and younger gynecologists who work with Dr. Fred in clinics consider him old-maidish. Internist Albert is considered to have a larger practice than Gynecologist Fred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortions | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Fact was, George II and the Greek people have no ardent love for one another. George, who is the protege and frequent houseguest of Britain's King-Emperor George V, seemed especially dubious of the invitation of General Kondylis, who is an open admirer of Benito Mussolini. In London the King's aide told newshawks that everything was still uncertain and in Athens Regent Kondylis replied that, if George refused to return, he would find another King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Royal Recall | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...smooth 37. It left her six down and she was still six down at the 13th green, where the match ended. It set the stage for a final in which Miss Van Wie's opponent for the title she won a year ago was her close friend and houseguest, Helen ("Billie") Hicks. Still a little chagrined at failing to qualify for last year's cham- pionship, after winning the year before, Helen Hicks, swinging her driver with a masculine wrist-flick and punching out her irons like a pro, had beaten square-jawed Maureen Orcutt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ladies at Exmoor | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan, he paused briefly at his house and private office to arrange personal affairs and discuss the Philippine situation for a third time before pushing on to Washington where President Hoover waited to welcome him as a White Houseguest. The State Department was on its toes to greet its new Secretary. Nobody was more excited than "Eddie" Savoy, 74, the messenger who has sat outside the door of more Secretaries of State than he cares to remember. He was appointed to his post in 1873 by Secretary of State Hamilton Fish, a son of whose butler and maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Number One Man | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

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