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Complaints in the Morning. More than four years ago Panayiota Theofanous, a pretty soft-voiced Nicosia housemaid, caught the fancy of John Gow, a Scots R.A.F. pilot. Airman Gow was killed six months before Panayiota gave birth to a boy in the Nicosia Government Hospital. The rosy baby weighed 7 Ibs. 9 oz., and had eyes as blue as any Scotsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: The Changelings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Woman's Touch. In Memphis, Orville Bond complained that his housemaid had filled all his 30 pipes with a sweet-smelling deodorant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would be dandy: she "would find no difficulty in making a living in this country, since she is a competent farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...boss would ask me if I thought I was a turista, or was on holiday in Cuernavaca. And it is going to continue that way as long as people are afraid of what people will say and the stylish people think a rebozo is the badge of a housemaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Fashion Notes | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Egg Fry | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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