Word: rion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When J. (for James) Rion McKissick graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1905, he was voted not only the biggest eater and best writer but the most accomplished orator in his class. Last week South Carolina's Governor Olin D. Johnston and a deputation of State officials gathered in the University's field house to inaugurate Alumnus McKissick, who had worked up from the editorship of the Greenville Piedmont through the deanship of the University's school of journalism, as the University's 19th president. Big, baldish Orator McKissick lived up to his undergraduate...
...world-wide attention two years ago in Honolulu's sensational rape-&-murder case (TIME, Jan. 18, 1932). Daughter Thalia more recently has made headlines by her divorce from Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N. (TIME, March 5), by reputed attempts at suicide (TIME, April 16). Daughter Marion ("Rion") has remained mostly on the society pages following her marriage to Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki last May. Last week the last of the Fortescue children, Hélène Kenyon, added her batch of clippings to the bulging Fortescue envelopes in newspaper morgues...
...Married. Rion Fortescue, sister of Thalia Fortescue Massie (TIME, April 16, et ante) and Daulton Gillespie Viskniskki, son of Col. Guy T. Viskniskki, onetime business manager of the Chicago Daily News; in Washington...
...Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt Ives, Vogue's associate fashion editor, sister of Actor Louis Calhern, in a square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model...