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...Philip Lyford, Mrs. Frederick Anthony Keyes, Mrs. Prentiss Nathaniel Gray, Mrs. Augustus Francis Gardela, Mrs. William Prentice Willetts, Mrs. David Herman Shulman, Mrs. Robert Gordon Paine, Mrs. John Edward Mansfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gene Krupa To Play During Senior Spread in Lowell House, June 16th | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Married. Forest Evashevski, 22, captain of the University of Michigan's football team, president of his class, football coach-elect at Hamilton College; and Ruth Margaret Brown, 22, daughter of Michigan's Senator Prentiss Marsh Brown; in St. Ignace, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Engaged. Forest Evashevski, 22, captain, quarterback and star blocker of the University of Michigan's football team; and Ruth Brown, 22, daughter of Michigan's Senator Prentiss M. Brown; in St. Ignace, Mich. Announced Senator Brown airily: "Most of that smart quarterbacking at Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...Morris agency asked Character Actor Irving Kaufman to assume the role. Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until he was tried out for Gaston, he had never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Gaston, the Patriot | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...whole Senate had a whack at it. Senator La Follette offered a carefully simple substitute bill (along Treasury lines), was turned down. Senator Josh Lee offered an amendment to "draft wealth" through forced loans, was turned down. But most of the debate centred on an irrelevant amendment by Senator Prentiss M. Brown of Michigan. His proposal: to end tax exemption on interest from all future issues of Federal, State and municipal bonds. Senator Brown, a liberal Democrat who is not always a New Dealer, headed a special Senate committee which has been studying the question of tax-exempt bonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXES: How Not to Write a Tax Bill | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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