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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into show business at the age of 13 on Toledo's station WSPD ("It was pretty much the same show I do now"). After graduating from New York University, she scored a modest success touring the Midwest, playing and singing in cocktail lounges. Then she married Salesman Sid Landau ("I can't understand why people always laugh when I tell them Sid sells zippers") and moved to Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Fill-in | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...LEROY L. LANDAU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: Sassenach Shindig | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...through the throngs lining the route from Waterloo Station. But it was only Queen Mary, sedate and ramrod-backed, in her maroon Daimler. The real cheers came half an hour later, when six prancing white police horses stepped along the broad, sanded Mall leading a shining, black state landau with scarlet-coated outriders. In the carriage, her pink ostrich feathers bobbing gaily, sat the Queen, King George beside her, in naval blues; and opposite their parents, riding backwards, the Princesses. As they drove past the cheering crowds, Margaret couldn't resist craning round once to see how near home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Homecoming | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...found himself liking Bermuda better & better. The crowd that greeted him at the pier was friendly and polite. The formalities were simple. He rode to the Governor's palace in an open, horse-drawn landau, spent a few minutes, rode back. After that he savored his leisure as he pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Deep Tan | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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