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...London, her parents announced that Lieut. Hoyt S. Vandenberg Jr., 23, son of the Air Force chief of staff, had won the hand of Sue Rosannah Johnson, 19, daughter of Major General Leon Johnson, Medal of Honor man (the Ploesti raid) and boss of the Third U.S. Air Force in Britain. They will be married at Mitchel Field, Long Island, after her father takes over his new job as commander of the Continental Air Command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Trials & Tribulations | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...called himself John Brown so that his colleagues would not know that he was Jewish. He still lived with his family in Brooklyn, but he never allowed any of them to come near his office Once, when he was with friends in the restaurant where his sister," Rosannah, worked, John pretended not to recognize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Steps of Brooklyn | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...Braunowitz, a Russian immigrant, was a grimy, scholarly, embittered man, who had nagged his simple wife into animal dullness and shirked his responsibilities as a father. Strong-willed daughter Deborah had backed up her mother and made herself the "father" of the family-and a Lesbian to boot. Daughter Rosannah had dutifully earned her living by serving in bars-which, to John's tortured, hypersensitive imagination, meant that she dallied with the barflies. Daughter Sarah had fled into the arms of a man she did not love, and her children's doleful life exactly reflected her own despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Steps of Brooklyn | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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