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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took a Manchester audience into his confidence on the subject of his daughter, Sharman, 21, who shares with her close friend, Princess Margaret, a liking for the gay social whirl. Confessed Douglas: "My daughter is quite beyond me. There is little I can say about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

British sewing circles went into a tizzy when a news photograph of Princess Elizabeth's private desk showed an ash tray and what looked like a cigarette box. The London Daily Express speculated whether the princess smoked in secret. Ready to believe the worst, a crestfallen spokesman for the National Society of Non-Smokers announced: "The society isn't downhearted, of course; we just have to work harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Alarmed at statistics that showed one divorce for every eight marriages in Britain* last year, the courageous speaker, Britain's Princess Elizabeth, went further; than either royal personages or most 23-year-olds are wont to do in speaking her mind. "We live in an age of growing self-indulgence," she warned her Mothers' Union audience, which included a turbaned matron from Lagos, "of hardening materialism and of falling moral standards . . . When we see around us the havoc which has been wrought, above all among the children, by the breakup of homes, we can have no doubt that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Better, for Worse | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

When he reigned, Leopold had a reputation for disregarding his ministers' counsel. But at week's end he canceled his hunting junket, instead took his princess to Paris for an "incognito" holiday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Going Places? | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Idler's Workshop group will give a one-actor entitled "The Faraway Princess" this afternoon in Agassiz Theater. The production gives Idler candidates a chance to show their talent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Picks Sartre's Play 'No Exit' For Fall Production; Cast Selected | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

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