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Married. Princess Luba Obolensky; and Prince Serge Gregory Troubetzkoy; scions of Russia's greatest pre-Revolution houses who have intermarried for five generations; in a Russian Orthodox Church in upper Manhattan. In 1931 the groom married the bride's sister. Princess Anna Obolensky, who two months later jumped off the Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 27, 1933 | 2/27/1933 | See Source »

Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker, technical chief of General Motors Corp.'s aviation division, visiting at Roosevelt Field, L. I., ran across Miss Luba Phillips, a Russian pilot, the first woman he ever taught to fly. A reunion! They should have a fly together! Her monocoupe sport plane was on the sidelines. In they jumped with Designer Fokker at the controls, up and around they darted in joyful banks, slips, spins and curleycues, all beautifully executed, all less than 500 ft. from the ground. When they landed, a Department of Commerce inspector approached. "Where," he asked, "is your license?" Mr. Fokker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...years he has been in Philadelphia, Stokowski has stayed just that -young, energetic, pliable. There have been changes in the man himself. He has laid aside Pianist Samaroff, taken to wife instead Evangeline Brewster Johnson, Manhattan socialite and mother of a second Stokowski daughter, Luba. From a simple, naive person he has changed to one who is autocratic, imperiously sure of his countless opinions on acoustics, lighting, radio, printing, painting, the habit of applause (TIME, Nov. 18). At a recent rehearsal he and Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff almost came to blows over the tempo of a Rachmaninoff concerto concerning which Stokowski...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spring Rite | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Page 27 of TIME, Aug. 20 reports that Myron Weiss was married to Luba Wies by Rabbi Wise. Is this one of Mayor Walker's "wise-cracks?" Granting that TIME has these names spelled correctly, I submit the Rabbi is the wisest of the three Wises. He got paid for his share of the performance...

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

Married. Myron Weiss, Associate Editor of TIME; to Luba Wies, Boston law student; by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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