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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Ring for Cinderella | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Before the building was opened as a guest house, it was remodelled extensively inside with period furnishings to match, some of them given or lent by graduates, others on loan from the Fogg or the Metropolitan in New York. The star visitors so far have been ex-King Peter of Yugoslavia, who stayed there when he came to speak at the Business School last spring, and Justice Felix Frankfurter, who was in Cambridge for a short time this summer. President Conant also stays there occasionally in one room he particularly likes-because it has a shower instead of a bath...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/8/1949 | See Source »

...second successive magnificent pitching duel of the young Series saw the Flock's lean lefthander and the Yankees; Vic Raschi match the superb Wednesday performance of Don Newcombe and Allie Reynolds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dodgers Win, tie Up Series | 10/7/1949 | See Source »

...tragic story and a gay fantasy will be the double feature at New Lecture Hall tonight when the Student Council presents football movies of Saturday's Columbia game and last year's Yale match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grid Movies Will Be Seen Tonight | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

...Last June, Buzzy Bavasi, the eminent business manager of the Royals, arranged a pre-game foot-race between Jethroe and Ed Conwell, former indoor sprint champion of the United States. In a 75-yard sprint, Jethroe beat Conwell by a comfortable five-yard margin. In a little publicized re-match, however, Conwell emerged a winner...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 10/4/1949 | See Source »

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