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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blonde, blue-eyed Mrs. Francis Miller from Philadelphia, whose husband was just demobbed from the King's Royal Rifle Corps, "kept looking at Queen Mary, because I think she's so cute." The American girls were surprised to find the Princesses so small. They were particularly impressed with the Queen and one admitted later that King George "was certainly attractive." Most of them were startled to find their British counterparts as well-dressed as themselves. "I saw only one or two curtains," said Denise Lawson-Johnston, of the New York Bovril people, in wondering tones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: One of Those Things | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

Chesterfield Supper Club (Mon. 7 p.m., NBC). Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...with a man, he wants me to keep his divorce out of the paper or something." When he dies, the Colonel will leave his empire in the hands of a junta of its officers. He has no son & heir, but he has a favorite niece, blonde Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller, 26 (daughter of the Colonel's late brother Medill and Ruth Hanna McCormick), who is learning the business with her husband by running a small-town daily in La Salle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Century | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...65th birthday party, the Colonel asked Bazy Miller to stand up in front of his 170 guests. "Bazy," he rumbled, "tradition has an important part in every organization. And when, 15 or 20 years from now, I am no longer [here], Ruth Elizabeth-Bazy-will be carrying on the tradition of Joseph Medill, an invaluable thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel's Century | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...finished second. Puzzled and angry, he demanded: "Why did you keep flagging me down . . .? I pulled over and waved at Rose when he went by. ... I figured I was still laps in front." Lou Moore, whose ambition is to be what Racer-Builders Fred Duesenberg and Harry Miller were to the speedway business in prewar days, said nothing. Both his beauties had come home and that was what mattered most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: EZY Did It | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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