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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pamela Mason may be coruscant; she is also extremely intelligent, articulate, frank, and altogether interesting to look at and listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...March 16 article describing Pamela Mason and her unorthodox views, I must tell you that our senior class in sociology enjoyed it thoroughly. We wonder what she hopes to gain by expressing such laughably absurd ideas on the subject of sex. She approved everything from harems to homosexuality. We surmised, at length, that Mrs. Mason must be seeking attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 6, 1959 | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...After the war, Romney went to work for Nash-Kelvinator as assistant to President George Mason. The company, which had started in 1902 with Founder Thomas Jeffrey's Rambler, a one-cylinder runabout, was bought in 1916 by Charles Nash, president of General Motors, who introduced the first Nash in 1917. As solid and conservative as its uninspiring cars, Nash had for years been a profitable but never a spectacular company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Romney picked Nash over other jobs because George Mason, like Romney, believed in the future of the smaller car. The company had started developing one before World War II, was ready to introduce a new, compact Rambler. Also in the works: the Nash Metropolitan (wheelbase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Dinosaur Hunter | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

...Mason might have scrapped the hearing aid altogether if he had grown up with Pamela's family: "There were six of us, and we had to talk fast. My mother was half Irish, half Welsh, and she talked all the time-more than I do now." Pamela's Russian-born father (British Movie Pioneer Sir Isidore Ostrer) was not far behind in his rumpled English. The family stopped talking when Pamela's parents were divorced (she was eleven: "All of a sudden I was sort of grown up"), but her training paid off. Running away from school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Talker | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

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