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Willie, 34-year-old "baby" of the seven-famed golfing Turnesa brothers (the other six are pros), had brought along good luck in his golf bag. It was his mother-in-law's 15-year-old putter, the same club that had helped Willie win the 1947 British Amateur (TIME, June 9, 1947). Turnesa and his putter were hot on the slow Bermuda greens,* and Ward lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: After Ten Years | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...affectionate husband" between 35 and 50 years old ("I'm very affectionate myself," she explained). A Lexington, Ky. woman declared she would pay $10,000 for a man. And the Rev. E. L. Burr of Temperance, Mich, announced that he was looking for a husband for his mother-in-law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Passion & Pork Chops | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

President Branch Rickey of the Brooklyn Dodgers finally yielded his mother-in-law's missing darning needle. A doctor found it by X ray, managed to cut it out of where it had disappeared to when Rickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Thing. The Times's Brooks Atkinson noted her "high spirit and versatility"; the Herald Tribune's Howard Barnes found her "attractive and promising"; the Daily News's John Chapman, "entirely acceptable"; PM's Louis Kronenberger, "Fetching to look at... pleasant to listen to." Mother-in-Law Eleanor Roosevelt, back from London just in time to watch from the second row, told Columnist Earl Wilson that Faye looked real pretty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Family Man. In Los Angeles, José Negrete had his marriage annulled so that he could marry his mother-in-law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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