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Word: margarets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heard from Mrs. Truman about daughter Margaret's concert appearance in Pittsburgh (see cut), the first in a nationwide tour of 30 cities. The audience of 4,000, which included Mrs. Truman and Secretary of the Treasury Snyder and his wife, applauded enthusiastically, called Margaret back nine times and heard three encores. But the critics, as before, were cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: I Know the Troubles... | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Britain's Princess Margaret Rose went off at 17 on her first official visit without her family (Queen Elizabeth stood at the palace entrance and waved goodbye). The Princess spent four days in Belfast, christened a ship, did fine, got back safe & sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Professional critics are rarely light enough on their feet to write good fiction themselves. Columbia University's Lionel Trilling has tried, and sometimes succeeded. The Other Margaret, his best short story, has become a small classic on the life of Manhattan "liberal" intellectuals and their children. Now he has written his first novel. It gets its title from the opening words of The Divine Comedy,* but in other ways has nothing in common with Dante. It is, in fact, a good and honest novel about the modern inability to accept such a hell and heaven as Dante imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul-Searcher | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1947 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Died. Janet Fairbank, 44, concert soprano, venturesome talent-hunter, daughter of Novelist Janet Ayer Fairbank (The Bright Land), niece of Pulitzer Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (Years of Grace); of malignant leukemia; in Chicago. Her practice of singing new songs instead of sure-fire classics consistently lost her money, won her the gratitude of young U.S. composers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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