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...Park. Even in Norfolk, Va., Britain's battleship, Duke of York, fired an extra 21-gun salute in honor of Britain's baby, and was answered in kind by half a dozen U.S. vessels. In Manhattan, Gimbels department store advertised a coroneted doll, holding a baby doll-"Liz herself and His Royal Highness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Prince Has Been Born | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Married. Mary Elizabeth Altemus ("Liz") Whitney, 42, hell-for-leather socialite horsewoman; and Dr. E. Cooper Person Jr., 38, surgery professor; she for the second time (her first: Millionaire Horseman John Hay-"Jock"- Whitney, now married to Betsey Cushing Roosevelt), he for the first; in Upperville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...unsuccessfully high-pressured but effectively soft-soaped into accepting the town's mores. She signs a paper that frames a Negro for rape and lets a white murderer go free. Afterwards Lizzie (well played by Meg Mundy*) feels tricked and disturbed, hides the Negro during a manhunt. But Liz eventually becomes resigned and "respectful"-she agrees to be the mistress of a particularly bigoted big shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...angular grace and deadpan beauty have made her for seven years one of Harry Conover's top ($25-an-hour) models. But after a chorus of critical raves for her Liz, she said: "I just want parts and more parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte). . . . We stole the rumor from a London correspondent for an American newsmag,* which is what comes from stealing news from amateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Let the Buyer Beware | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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