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...days after he was divorced by highstrung Cinemactress Bette Davis, 42, William Grant Sherry, 35. announced that he would marry Marion Richards, 23, nursemaid to his and Bette's three-year-old daughter Barbara. Said Sherry: "Marion is a very spiritually impressive girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

Arthur and Anna Thompson had never given up hoping that some day they would find Ronnie again. In the five years since he was kidnaped by his nursemaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Long Search | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Government was spending more than half a million dollars to prepare its case, including $23,000 to fly 19 witnesses from Japan. Throughout the prosecution's opening statement last week, Tokyo Rose -slight, neat and poker-faced-sat quietly, looking more like a nursemaid than a treasonous enemy of the U.S. With her in court was her husband, Felipe d'Aquino, a Portuguese whom she married in Tokyo in April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: Your Old Friend | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...Dostoevsky monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Clods & Saints | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...child of doting, well-to-do parents (the Theatre Guild), Allegro has been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding music, a virtual cantata. His most uninspired thoughts reverberate through loudspeakers; his quietest desires are wired for sound. As a result, Allegro gets too big for its roots and too elaborate to have an honest Our Town warmth. Snapshots in family albums lose some of their character and charm when blown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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