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...Women's Champion was Mrs. Lela Hall of East Lynne, Mo. Tiny (100 lb.), determined and a dead shot with a twelve-gauge gun that nearly kicked her off her feet, she broke 191 targets, four better than her closest rival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand American, Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...being an "old friend.'' had never met the Prince of Wales. She was ill on the day of Their Royal Highnesses' arrival, but, on being invited to dine at the Grand Hotel by Captain and Mrs. Alistair Mackintosh (Mrs. Mackintosh is another American, having been Miss Lela Emery of New York), she pulled herself together and went. The dinner was quite small, only eight covers. and took place informally on the terrace of the Grand Hotel, no one dressing, and none of the guests in the hotel apparently being aware of the presence of royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 10, 1932 | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Despatches from the Albanian capital of Tirana, last week, extravagantly rumored that over 300 minor and major blood feuds are now pending against well guarded King Ahmed Zogu. It was also rumored that the Sovereign had broken off the engagement which has bound him since childhood to wed Lela, luscious 23-year-old daughter of the great Albanian tribal chieftain Shevket Bey Verlatzi. Such a jilt, if actually perpetrated, can scarcely fail to engender another deadly blood feud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALBANIA: Blood Feuds | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Engaged. Capt. Alastair Mackintosh, onetime Seaforth Highlander, divorced second husband of Cinemactress Constance Talmadge; to Lela Emery, daughter of the late John J. Emery, Cincinnati real estate tycoon...

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

...Women are underpaid." ? Miss Lela Lackey of Little Rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: N. F. B. P. W. C. | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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