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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Lady Dorothy Whittall Campbell, by Speedster Sir Malcolm Campbell, now heading a British motorcycle militia unit (TIME, Sept. 25); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Birmingham coal dealer, Artist Brockhurst was born in 1890. At twelve he entered the Birmingham School of Art, was soon hailed as "a young Botticelli," won prize after prize there and at the Royal Academy Schools in London. A smooth success from his first one-man show in 1915, Limner Brockhurst charges up to ?2,000 for a full-length portrait, limits his commissions to ?20,000 a year. His person is as meticulous as his painting. He has a horror of Bohemianism, would rather stain his Bond Street suits with paint than cover them up with a smock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portraitist | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...time, Berlin sent its version: that another British ship, the Browning, had been spared by the U-boat commander to care for the Royal Sceptre's crew. Later, the Royal Sceptre crew turned up safe in Bahia, Brazil. Other Berlin hotfoots: reports that "fat City men" hustle through London's financial district with steel helmets concealed under toppers; that English women are adopting a new helmet hairdo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Born. To Ernest Aldrich Simpson, 42, ex-husband of the Duchess of Windsor, and Mary Kirk Raffray Simpson, 43; a son (premature); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 9, 1939 | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Germany is the loudest, longest-winded propagandist on the Fourth Front, carrying out the Hitler-inspired rule: "Make it simple, tell them often, make it burn." London is next, then Paris. U. S. S. R.'s mighty Radio Moscow is hard to hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fourth Front | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

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