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...Mabel Dodge Luhan, veteran salon-keeper and genius-collector, strangely silent after years of holding nothing back in volume after volume of Intimate Memories, was merely busy writing about her neighbors again. Out next fortnight: Taos and Its Artists. Four-times-married Mrs. Luhan, 68, still married to Pueblo Indian Tony after 24 years, talked to a reporter about domesticity and the Gadget Age. Marriage? "I have not analyzed it much for the last 30 years, but it is wonderful. It is a pleasure." Modern times? "If more machinery would break down, sort of gradually, we would all be better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 5, 1947 | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

Nose in the Air. Evelyn came to radio a roundabout way that began in Reedville, Va., where she sang in a Methodist choir, played Mabel in a high-school production of The Pirates of Penzance, and acquired an altitudinous nose-tilt that earned her the nickname "Little Miss God." After graduation, she breezed into Washington's Station WRC, asked for a singing job, and got one-a 10 a.m. spot twice a week over NBC. The pay: $16 a broadcast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Evelyn's Costly Consonants | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Appealing again this year for Harvard support in the annual National Tuberculosis Association's Christmas Seal fund raising drive, Miss Mabel M. Brown, executive secretary of the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association, has announced that by the end of the week approximately 10,000 appeal any lopes will have been mailed to students in the university. Each envelope contains 100 Christmas Seals and a request for a $1.00 contribution...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Will Receive TB Xmas Seal Appeal In Mail During Week | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

...world blew up with a gaudy and scandalous bang. A deposition filed before a New York surrogate by a Manhattan attorney named Raymond T. Armbruster told a startling story. Armbruster's story: two months before her death last summer, a rich, British-born, Park Avenue socialite named Mrs. Mabel Seymour Greer told him of a girlhood indiscretion. She had borne a child out of wedlock in Boston more than half a century before. The father: Dr. Willard B. Segur. In Armbruster's opinion her child and only heir was the doctor's adopted son, Harold Alfred Segur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Mrs. Green's Secret | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Last month gloom deepened; Mabel disappeared. Gripp was grief-stricken. Then he too disappeared. In inner Tower circles it is suspected that Mabel's kidnapper kidnaped Gripp to keep her company. All over Britain farmers offered replacements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Ravens | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

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