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...weeded them down to four. The less critical bleachers merely kept up a long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Rabbit's Foot Belle | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Married. Alice Muriel Astor Obolensky von Hoffmannsthal Harding, 34 (daughter of Colonel John Jacob Astor, sister of Vincent); and David Pleydell-Bouverie, 34, U.S.-naturalized grandson of the late British munitions tycoon Albert Vickers; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 27, 1946 | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...high office in U.S. industry has often been considered too thin for women to stand. Last week, the staid old Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) broke this antifeminine taboo. Into two of its five executive posts of assistant secretary it raised two ex-stenographers: brown-eyed, brown-haired Miss Muriel E. Reynolds, 42, and small (5 ft. i in.) Mrs. Margery M. Porter, also 42, who wears her brown hair in a feather cut. They are the first women ever to become corporate officers in mighty Standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glamor for Standard | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 7, 1944 | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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