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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensation of the evening was Elizabeth's mischievous sister Margaret. She started off as Madame Butterfly, changed costumes to become "Mademoiselle Fifi," the belle of the boulevards. "It's a good thing," said one of the guests later, "that Queen Victoria wasn't there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: H.R.H. Fifi | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...there will be absolutely no cheerfulness." For his premiere, Burrows wound up with a big production number: a Burrows version of Hamlet, adapted for Hollywood ("Hamlet is upset because he doesn't like the second husband his mother married. This Hamlet is a kind of Danish Margaret O'Brien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Just for the Laugh | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Other Wimbledon winners in what turned out to be American week: Pancho Gonzales and Frank Parker, who won the men's doubles from Schroeder and Gard-nar Mulloy; and Louise Brough, who beat Margaret Osborne du Pont in the women's singles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winners at Wimbledon | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Married. Margaret Ann ("Peggy") Hoover, 23, eldest of the ex-President's grandchildren; and Richard Tatem Brigham, 23, Boston wool broker and nephew of New Jersey's Governor Alfred E. Driscoll; in Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 11, 1949 | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, all dressed up to take in a new movie (the world premiere of Christopher Columbus) at London's Odeon theater, stopped for a moment amid popping flashbulbs for a curtsy to Queen Mary, grandmother of her friend Princess Margaret, as Sharman's own mother beamed approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 4, 1949 | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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