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Bessie married a chemist named Michael Berliney, but in professional connections preferred to be known as "Mrs. Pastor." The couple moved to Perth Amboy, N. J., where "Mike" had a laboratory. With skilled, indefatigable hands Mrs. Pastor kept house for her husband, spent her spare time in his workshop, composing synthetic waxes, lotions and soaps. Today she has taken out 18 patents, has sold some of them to cosmetic and soap makers. Not to be outdone, Mike has taken out 174 patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Iceolite | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size of California and Texas combined-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 27, 1937 | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Died. David G. Baillie, 71, oldtime newspaperman, onetime literary secretary to Andrew Carnegie, father of United Press President Hugh Baillie; while vacationing, in Aberfeldy, Perth, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...Porter of Manhattan's Millrose Athletic Club: the national Amateur Athletic Union marathon, from Mount Vernon to the White House, winning by a half-mile over Pat Dengis of Baltimore and Canadian James Bartlett. C. Jessie Anderson, 22, dogged daughter of a Perth golf professional: the British Women's Golf Championship, succeeding Pamela Barton; by crushing Doris Parks of Edinburgh, 6 & 4; at Turnberry, Scotland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Who Won | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

Soon the Recorder had Mrs. Czinkota and a Perth Amboy attorney in court. Cried the lawyer to one witness: "Do you actually believe there is such a thing as a witch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Witch | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

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