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Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

...under the dominance of his stingy elder brother George II, the easygoing Crown Prince spent most of his time away from Greece, aimlessly drifting from the home of one royal relative to that of another or sporting with the fast-living "Alfa Romeo set" in Italy. Once, as a lark, he slipped back into republican Greece wearing a thick black beard and posing as a deckhand on a friend's yacht. By the time he married Frederika, at the age of 36 (she was 20), restless, roaming Paul was more than ready to settle down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The King's Wife | 10/26/1953 | See Source »

...chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband, the husband grows gay as a lark; and in due course, a third gentleman appears and enters the lists (and the hut) with the lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 19, 1953 | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

University finance officials took a dim view of Brown's spring lark, and promptly provided him with a police escort to Dean Watson's office. Watson, conversant with fiduciary matters, gracefully accepted the silver dollars, explaining: "Refusal to accept legal lender in discharge of a debt would make that debt null and void...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Term Bill Paid... In Silver Dollars | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...students, it all seemed something of a lark at first-six expense-paid weeks in sunny Southern California. But last week, as one by one they marched up to receive their graduation certificates, Dean Lockley happily noted that they all looked "five years older . . . We have tried," said he, "to turn out men who can think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: School for the Santa Fe | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

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