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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Mention was made recently in TIME that Capt. Vernou is now aide to the President (TiME, May 30). For personal reasons I would like to know the parentage of Capt. Vernou. May Vernou, a daughter of Capt. Vernou of the 19th U. S. Infantry, was a schoolmate of mine in Galveston, Tex., in the '80's. She married an officer of the U. S. Army, whose name I do not recall, and died not long afterwards. As a subscriber in good standing would appreciate a TIME pencil, as mentioned in the issue of June...
...wise; an estimate of Clarence Darrow ("Portrait of a Great Actor") by Louis Adamic; an account of the witlessness of book publishers; a behind-scenes political review by Robert S. Allen, one of the authors of The Washington Merry-Go-Round; a dispassionate report of Harlan, Ky. mine disorders by Eve Garrette Grady; a sketch of California's Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph; bits of verse; an estimate of the late Ivar Kreuger; a revelation that cowboys on dude ranches sometimes make love to attractive feminine guests; a review of the wrestling racket...
Small (5 ft. 1 in.) Sari Maritza chose her name because she wanted a Viennese sounding one that no one would mispronounce. She considered her real one- Patricia Detering-Nathan- insufficiently romantic. Daughter of a British Army officer who owned a coal mine at Tientsin, she formed an inclination to be a cinemactress ten years ago while passing through Hollywood to England for her schooling. In 1928, when she was 18, a small part in an Austrian cinema got her a job with an English producing company. She was chosen for the lead in The Water Gypsies because Director Basil...
...Fugitive Sherwood's disappearance. He said he had tried to get him back so he ''wouldn't have to go through these two days." If the $700,000 was inferred to belong partly to him, Mayor Walker said he "hoped [the Inquisitor] proves it is mine. I'd try and collect it" (Laughter). The lock box, he explained, had been shared when Mayor Walker was in the State Senate and practiced law in a firm for which Sherwood was accountant. It had been used by the Mayor as a repository for papers relating...
Esley Stebbins: I tell ye they're mine, durn...