Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. James ("Jimmy") Wallington, 29, radio announcer; and Betty Jane Cooper, 23, musicomedienne (George White's Scandals); in Detroit, Mich...
King Henry VIII suffered from syphilis which he gave to at least four of his six wives. No. 3, Jane Seymour, mother of puny Edward VI, "died before any such misfortune could befall her." No. 4, ugly Anne of Cleves, escaped because "the marriage was never consummated." Diagnostician Kemble argues that Henry divorced and executed his wives simply in hopes of siring a male heir. . . . "He died primarily from heart failure. Just as his life had been ruled by his syphilitic infection, so his death was occasioned by its ravages upon his heart and blood vessels." In Henry...
Conceived as a Baedeker of the world's ships and seas, it answers every question a voyager could ask a ship's officer except "When do we dock?" Of special interest to sea-travelers is a section which does for the world's merchant marine what Jane's Fighting Ships does for the world's navies. Consisting of accurate scale drawings of the principal merchant vessels of the seven seas, it enables any landlubber to identify any distant liner from the huge Queen Mary to the little Polish Batory...
Last week in Los Angeles Yale's Nursing Dean Effie Jane Taylor presided over deliberations of the National League of Nursing Education. Two years ago this body set out to shut down schools of nursing operated by hospitals with less than 100 patients a day on whom student nurses might practice. The move was to reduce the number of new nurses entering the profession and to compel those who did enter to have excellent training (TIME...
Little Miss Nobody (Twentieth Century-Fox). With Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and the Quintuplets under exclusive contract, Twentieth Century-Fox currently has a corner on child stars. This situation lays a heavy burden on the firm's scenarists. Little Miss Nobody is evidence to the effect that they are not capable of carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from...