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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrote Woodrow Wilson's widow recently in the Satevepost, describing the Wilsons' first return from the Peace Conference in February 1919. In next week's installment, Widow Wilson relates how, when she saw her husband being crucified on his Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the League, she suggested that his doctor make him resign in favor of Vice President Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Wives | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Otto Krause, 55, onetime Austrian cavalry officer, husband of famed Soprano Lotte Lehmann; of tuberculosis; at Saranac Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent most of her time on stairways talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Innocent and Damned | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh, Mrs. Alexandria Grodecki applied for a divorce. Grounds: her husband Anthony frightened her by "Dracula-like" behavior, putting lighted candles in his ears, shouting, "I eat blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...held by Alex Dupont won a 1,000,000-franc prize in the national lottery drawing. But M. Dupont had died, few weeks before. After a long and futile search for the ticket, his widow decided that it must be in the pocket of the white duck suit her husband was buried in. She got permission, exhumed the body, found the ticket, cashed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Husband | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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