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Madame Chiang Kai-Shek came to Cambridge from Wellesley yesterday, but she came only on a private visit to her nephew, Ling Kai K'ung who is a graduate student in Government as well as Mme. Chiang's "secretary-general" on her United States tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madame Chiang Visits Nephew in Cambridge | 3/9/1943 | See Source »

...Aunt Maud, a middle-class lady who, in letters, keeps her nephew in the army informed on Home Front conditions, particularly the feud between the Whist Club Committee and the Impoverished Gentlewoman's True Blue Conservative Associaation; Uncle Fred and the ironmonger-the local Home Guard unit is too small to hold them both; Aunt Maud's gardener, who persistently reads Karl Marx and who says "It is no use planting anything this spring as we shall have the revolution before the onions come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nat Gubbins | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Lewis (Cosmetiqueen "Elizabeth Arden"); and Prince Michael Evlanoff, late of the late "international set"; she for the second time; in Manhattan. She is in her 50s, he fortyish. A '41 refugee from France, for 20 years he had been an agent for Swedish-Russian Petroleum King Emanuel Nobel (nephew of Prize-Founder Alfred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Tennessee. Fourteen-year-old Eunice Johns, whose marriage had become a national sensation in 1937 (Husband Charlie gave her a doll for a wedding present), became the mother of a 7-lb. girl. The child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch," he said, pointing with his squirrel rifle, "well, that's the dividing line. No photographers can cross it." The newsmen went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 4, 1943 | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...Massive, thick-necked, aged (80) Lieut. Governor Walter S. Goodland (a Republican whom reporters call "Woof Woof" because he looks and growls like a St. Bernard) might get the job. He was re-elected last month, had himself sworn in for his new term by his nephew one hour and ten minutes after he heard of Loomis' death. Though Wisconsin's Constitution makes no such provision, Walter Goodland's friends insist that he should on Inauguration Day (Jan. 4) become acting governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Trouble in Wisconsin | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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