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...year old sister. Both were sensitive, high-strung. Few weeks before, they had become very much attached to two British Royal Air Force officers who had been delayed at Naples on a flight to Singapore. One of the officers planned to break his engagement to a Bedfordshire dancing instructress to marry Jane. The other officer had an "understanding" with Elizabeth. Few hours after the officers left Naples they crashed in Sicily, died in flames...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Leap | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

Married. Francis Lee Higginson 3d, son of Boston Financier Francis Lee Higginson; to Dorothy Lucas of Blundell Sands, England; in Blundell Sands. He met her last winter while she was swimming instructress on a world cruise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 22, 1928 | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Francis Lee Higginson 30, son of Francis Lee Higginson, Boston Financier; to Dorothy Lucas of Blundell Sands, England. Mr. Higginson met Miss Lucas last winter while she was swimming instructress on the world cruise of the Franconia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 15, 1928 | 10/15/1928 | See Source »

...Rosamond Pinchot Gaston, actress, niece of Republican Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, as an instructress of campaign speakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Votes Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress in talent and conception-dangerous impertinence. Her prosaic lover defined romance as "uncomfortable and dangerous things happening to someone else," but Arachne's malapert masterpiece was a nevertheless romantic tapestry of gods and their foibles. To Athene's vengeful annoyance, a jury of immortals promptly, indifferently, judged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impertinent | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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