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...girl who has attracted universal attention and could just as easily count the sands on the seashore or the stars in the heavens as calculate the number of her admirers, is here in Nassau--and coming here she is home, for she is none other than Brenda Frazier, granddaughter of Lady Williams-Taylor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A JOY FOREVER | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...expostulated to such effect that one of Pius XI's first acts was to extend the minimum period between the Pope's death and the opening of the conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau, might miss his third conclave. At news of the Pope's death he booked passage north on an airplane, then caceled it for his health's sake, embarked for Manhattan on a ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Death of a Pope | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Nassau with her daughter, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, Cafe Society's No. 1 glamor girl, Mrs. Frederic Watriss declared: "Certainly Brenda, likes being popular. So do I. We all love it. There is no problem to being the mother of a popular deb. It is the mothers of the others I'm sorry for. It must be awful to be the mother of a flop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 13, 1939 | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

...shapely, wide-eyed, with a striking shoulder length of blue black hair. Her grandfathers were a Chicago grain broker named Frank Pierce Frazier and Sir Frederick Williams-Taylor, a Canadian capitalist who used to manage the Bank of Montreal and whose Lady is social matriarch of Nassau. At eleven, she struck the Sunday supplements as the centre of a scandalous financial row between her divorced parents, each of whom sought to prove the other unfit to be her custodian. Fight and notoriety continued until her father died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...night club's hay ride through Manhattan's streets, served as debutante chairman of charity's Velvet Ball, posed for Woodbury's Soap ads. Last month, publicly expressing displeasure with her daughter's constant publicity, Mrs. Watriss packed her off to Nassau and her maternal grandparents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Ritz | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

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