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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point Frances May Maddux, with the aplomb of many a speakeasy and night-club experience at her command, and Cinemactress Grace Evans joined the party. So did the Duke's equerry, Lieutenant David Scrymgeour (sometimes pronounced skinner) Wedderburn of the Scots Guards. Yankee Celler raised a glass. Yankee Maddux proposed a toast. "To disaster," she chirruped, adding cannily, "if it comes." To disaster they drank. Then, prudently refraining from smashing the glasses, they proceeded to polish off both bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Yankee Toast | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

...time we were up there I was thinking, 'This will be a first-page story in New Haven if we smash.' What a vacation for me! Only a week ago I was in one of Hitler's prisons for taking pictures without permission." Said brunette Miss Maddux: "It was fun. I think I made some good friends during that half hour." Then the toasters set off for a party at a London hotel, equerry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Yankee Toast | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

Whats the Maddux with you? Too much Beveridge last night and I got a Paine. Did you cut yourself with your Gillette? No, McCann bothers...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Hney, | Title: HUEY PRESTON THE BUTTON AND FORCED TO PICK HAAVUDD | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...about a dentist's wife who wins a $10,000 novel contest; 3) a realistic report on New Year's Eve in a flop house, by Albert Maltz; 4) a whimsy about a girl whose poetic sprightliness enchants a middle-aged doctor, by 24-year-old Rachel Maddux; 5) a sentimental reminiscence of childhood by I. J. Kapstein. Main trouble with "novellas" seemed to be that they added length but no depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Stories | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

Died. John Luther ("Jack") Maddux, 49, president of Transcontinental Air Transport Inc.; of a heart attack; in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1937 | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

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