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Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 23, 1938 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Aurora, Mo., Nola Hall, 15, was twitted by her family when she said she would get President Roosevelt to send her a dress for Christmas. Thereupon she sat down and wrote Mr. Roosevelt as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Silence | 1/7/1935 | See Source »

...when he leads a band of grimy Union Square radicals ("We Seldom Fill Our Stomics, But We're Full of Economics") in song: Down, down with the House of Morgan! We'll blow up the Roxy organ! Down with novelists like Zola! Down with pianists who play "Nola!". . . We will make all tyrants shiver. Down upon the Sewanee River! Happiness will fill our cup When everything is down that's up! With plenty of blue shirts already on hand, the revolution is not hard to start. In a quavering voice, Alexander Throttlebottom wins the support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays In Manhattan: Oct. 30, 1933 | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Anderson, Ind., Lawyer Arthur Call well knew the Armstrong family-a mother, four sons and two daughters. Some time ago the mother died. Soon afterwards Lawyer Call received a call from Geneva and Nola Lee Armstrong, was surprised to behold them dressed as men. Agitated, they explained that they only lately learned they were men. Their mother, longing for daughters, had raised them as girls from birth. Last week, through Lawyer Call, Geneva, 33, and Nola Lee, 31, asked a court to change their names to Noel and Gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Loew's State -- "Those Three French Girls". Namely, Fify d'Orsay, Nola d' Avril and Sondra Ravel being continental...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/18/1930 | See Source »

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