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...ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats and vegetables (thoroughly boiled) and stewed fruit. Writer Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic affairs for the MSA office in Paris, was reported "fine" after an emergency appendectomy which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 18, 1952 | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

This story of intricate Communist mancuvers to capture scientific data takes place in Boston--and the theatre audience won't let you forget it. Russian agents land in Charlestown and make their contacts in the Boston Common or on Beacon Street; the FBI tracks them from Louisburg Square to such obscure spots as the Lampoon Building. The whole chase maintains trotting speed throughout, then gallops up to a suspenseful final scene involving parachute flares, speedboats and even submarines...

Author: By William Burden, | Title: Walk East on Beacon | 5/6/1952 | See Source »

...president, N.A.M. elected high-domed William H. Ruffin, 51, president of Durham, N.C.'s Erwin Mills, Inc. He succeeds Claude A. Putnam, president of the Markem Machine Co. in Keene, N.H. President Ruffin was born & bred in Louisburg, N.C., went to work 29 years ago at a weaving machine in Erwin's textile mills and climbed steadily until he became president in 1948. Ruffin, who describes himself as a "moderately large manufacturer," employs 7,400 in his mills, is the first N.A.M. president to come from the soft-goods industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: The Big Question | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...readers will share Author Matthiessen's sense of the abominations "behind the golden curtain" of the U.S.; more (conceivably including Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina) will find it ludicrous that an American can write: "I admit that my first night home [in Boston's Louisburg Square] I woke up in a sudden sweat of fear ... I was back in a very uncertain battle." Christian, Socialist, non-Marxist Professor Matthiessen's idea of certainty: "It [Soviet Russia] knows what it wants, and brutalized as much of its practice may have been, it still points toward a goal that gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocent Abroad | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...house in Villa Nova outside Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NOVA SCOTIA: Of Mines & Men | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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