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Back in the women's cell block, Mrs. Li and the head matron made up Yoshiko's bed and began assembling her belongings. Both women's eyes were red, as were those of a number of other women prisoners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Foolish Elder Brother | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

Bosom Companion. In San Antonio, Jail Matron Mamie Lyons frisked a new arrival, shook a pet tarantula out of her brassiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...audience in Cleveland's Labor Hall was in an ugly mood. The 450 union men had come to hear a debate between two rival candidates for the school board, but their favorite, a union president, had not appeared. As his opponent, a plump, middle-aged matron, stepped to the microphone, the audience began to boo and stamp. They did not know Mrs. Norma Wulff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Perpetual Motion | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

...everyone's relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After last fortnight's broad hints (TIME, Dec. 8), the mystery of Miss Hush was no longer very mysterious. For Dancer Graham it had been a big publicity binge. For the March of Dimes it had been worth at least $350,000. For Listener Subbie it was more of the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hushed Voice | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Despite all those , the true, underlying attitude American people toward Harvard is the statement of a Milwaukee matron the parents of a local boy studying at Harvard...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

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