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...famed glass-bottomed boats, through which avid-eyed tourists once stared back at opal-eyed bass, were tied up at the docks. The $2,000,000, twelve-story casino, on whose Moorish-Spanish exterior thousands of weekenders penciled their names, was a part time classroom; the expensive St. Catherine Hotel was a training headquarters and barracks; the Wrigley-built Hotel Atwater was a school and dormitory for marine stewards, cooks and bakers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Catalina Converts | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells- Opal Wheeler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Grounds. In Minneapolis, Milton Oliver Brown complained that his wife, Opal Barbara, took more than her share of the bedclothes, sued her for divorce on grounds of cruel & inhuman treatment. In Indianapolis, a woman suing for divorce charged that her husband kept his gun collection and an 18-foot fishing boat in the living room. In Chicago, Mrs. Frances Toler, a model, won a divorce after complaining that she supported her husband but that he refused to do the housework...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

There are only a handful of women golf pros in the U. S. Onetime U. S. Champion Helen Hicks Harb, Kansas City's hardy, 48-year-old Opal Hill and Washington's young Helen Dettweiler exhibit their talents at country clubs to promote Wilson golfing equipment. Husky Helen MacDonald, onetime wife of a Chicago pro, runs a golf school. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, famed 1932 Olympic track star, travels around with her husband, Wrestler George Zaharias, gives exhibitions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Patty Goes Pro | 7/15/1940 | See Source »

Married. John Macrae, 72, longtime president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), famed for his white whiskers, pink shirts, and garrulous letters to the trade; and comely Opal Wheeler, fortyish, musicologist and schoolmistress; he for the second time, she for the first time; in Rosebank, Staten Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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