Word: margarets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lion's share of attention from press and public, were playing elsewhere (at Newport, R.I.*). The galleries at Manchester were small, but those on hand had plenty to see. The net impression: the reign of the two current tennis queens, Wimbledon Champion Louise Brough (26) and U.S. Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont (31), is seriously threatened for the first time in three years...
...sweltered in their heavy dinner jackets, martyrs to the myth that London never really gets hot. In the House of Commons, the Serjeant at Arms permitted newsmen to remove their jackets (although honorable member's had to retain their coats and ties). To Playwright William Douglas Home Princess Margaret granted the privilege of dining with her at a London nightclub in his shirtsleeves. It was hot in other places than England. In West Germany, where the thermometer hovered around 95°, businessmen rebelled against the tyranny of male fashions, shed suits and ties, pedaled about town in Lederhosen (leather...
...Margaret Truman laid aside her pitch pipes and throat sprays to spend a "restful weekend" in Newport, R.I. with Madame Minister Perle Mesta, attended an American Legion carnival and rode the Ferris wheel with her hostess...
Hard pressed by the book slump, Haldeman-Julius had decided to junk his familiar, plain format in favor of a new look. From his printing house in Girard, Kans. (pop. 2,500), he will continue to fill mail orders for everything from Practical Masonry (No. 1,232) to Margaret Sanger's What Every Girl Should Know (No. 14). But from now on, the Blue Books will be dressed up in lively, illustrated jackets in every color except blue...
Died. Mrs. Margaret Elaine Damrosch, 82, wife of Conductor-Composer Walter Damrosch, daughter of onetime Secretary of State and Presidential Candidate James G. Elaine; in Bar Harbor...