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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pairing with a player of the opposite sex, moving up to goal marked The Altar. Cards rather than dice determine moves. If a pair draw cards marked "Edward" and "Wallis," they move ahead fast; if they draw "Canterbury," they are "sent into exile." As a promotion stunt Miss Davis recently sent a box of Love to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This week, according to a columnist in London's Daily Express, she got his answering letter. "It was a model of frigidity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Games | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

When he learned that students had invited Secretary Perkins to the college, Geneva's psalm-singing* President McLeod Milligan Pearce last week hastily canceled the invitation, explained: "If Miss Perkins were not particularly identified with a labor movement, we would have been very glad to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pearce and Perkins | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...professor is survived by his widow; two daughters, Mrs. George C. Eaton of Belmont, and Mrs. W. J. R. Taylor of Concord; and a sister, Miss Mary L. Sauveur, of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Albert Sauveur, Professor of Metallurgy, Emeritus, Dies; 75 | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...Miss Wiman, who "came out" in Greenwich and then again in New York during the 1937-38 season, said she was personally a bit worried about the possibility of the show becoming a smash hit in New York. "Gosh," she said, "if it runs on into next fall, what am I going to do about the football games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nancy Wiman, Debutante Sparkle of "Stars in Your Eyes" Relates Story | 1/25/1939 | See Source »

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