Word: misses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, in its issue of July 11, carried a review of Alma, Margaret Fuller's recent novel. This review referred to Miss Fuller as "once the secretary, now the wife of Edmund Clarence Stedman." You telegraphed us on July 1 asking for confirmation of this statement, but because of the holidays your telegram did not reach us until July 5. We wired you immediately that Miss Fuller has never been married and that Mr. Stedman has been dead for years. Miss Fuller was Mr. Stedman's secretary and was with him all the last years preceding his death...
...English Channel grew smooth. Mr. Temme swallowed chocolate, tea, coffee, lemonade. A "giant" dogfish waggled itself alongside Mr. Temme in friendly fashion. Mr. Temme trudgeoned on, reaching Lydden Spout, under the Dover chalk cliffs, in 14 hr. 29 min.-two minutes less than Miss Ederle had taken; but three hours, 24 minutes longer than George Michel, the plump, record-holding French baker. Thomas W. Burgess, bronzed Nestor of English natation, and second- man to swim the Channel (in 1911), clapped his pupil heartily on a greasy shoulder. Evelyn Pettipiere, Mr. Temme's fiancee, rushed forward for a wet embrace...
...newspaper-readers were thus assured that Channel-swimming would not be a headline craze again this summer. Miss Ederle, now appearing in "small-time" U. S. vaudeville, and other swimmers may have felt vexed at the "fickleness" of public interest. But beside scientific travel over a whole ocean, for example, muscular travel across a 20-mile tide race seemed to have shrunk to the proportions of a frog beside an eagle...
Engaged. The divorced onetime Countess Salm von Hoogstraeten, originally prominent Miss Millicent Rogers of Manhattan; to a rich Argentinean scion, Arthur Perlata Ramos, of Buenos Aires...
Married. John A. Perdicaris, nephew of that Ion Perdicaris whose capture by the late Moroccan bandit lord, Mulai Ahmed er-Raisuli, created an international stir in 1904;- to Miss Eunice Maxwell Howard of Dayton, Ohio; at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, Manhattan. He, a rich tobacco importer of Manhattan, Paris and Venice, hastened to sail for Europe last week with his bride...