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...autumn day in 1951 when Private William Speakman of the Black Watch won the Victoria Cross for heroically beating off a Chinese assault with hand grenades (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952), Private Patrick E. Lydon, 26, lay in a nearby trench, cringing with fear. Last week, before a court-martial, his lieutenant told what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cowardice in Korea | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...first episode plunged right into the teary wedding morning of Chris and Connie Thayer (Jimmy Lydon and Olive Stacey) and The First Hundred Years intends to sob-and-smile its way through in-law troubles, childbirth, alienated affections and innumerable reconciliations. Recalling the long runs of some of radio's continued dramas (One Man's Family, Life Can Be Beautiful), Adman Walter Craig has foresightedly signed his leading characters to seven-year contracts. But it's hard to stop a soap opera, once it really gets going. Says Craig: "Suppose one of the mothers-in-law should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Entering Wedge | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

Married. John ("Pick up the check") Meyer, 43, Howard Hughes's free-spending wartime pressagent, whose Sybaritic expense account was the subject of a Senate investigation into government contract-letting; and Patti Lydon, 24, Hollywood brunette; both for the second time; in Las1 Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...feet 24 hours a day," Miss Winfred Lydon, Director of the Nursery School, ruefully explained. "His poor little feet just couldn't get a chance to heal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Little Harvey, Hare's Heir, Will Cheer Nursery School | 4/20/1948 | See Source »

Both festivities are parts of the work the quonset-housed nursery on Kirkland Place is doing to promote religious tolerance among the 90 pre-kindergarten children who come daily to play there. Directed by white-haired Miss Winnifred Lydon, the year-old school offers the youngsters of both veteran and non veteran students four daily hours of play for only $5 a month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nursery Learns Tolerance at Yuletide, Chanukah Parties | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

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