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...Seven-year-old Prince Edward, who became the Duke of Kent when his father died in a 1942 plane crash, watched with his sister Alexandra (see cut) a London parade of his mother's WRENS (Britannic WAVES). Sprucely dressed, the exquisite Marina's handsome elder son looked as though he had outgrown his interest in heaving pillows from Buckingham Palace balconies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Family Circles | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

After eight years of marriage, much of it in absentia, plum-shaped John Jacob Astor III's pretty wife Ellen was in Reno. Married the year that his coming-of-age netted him an inheritance of some $10 million, she was to have been bridesmaid at his wedding to another girl, who had jilted him. With the divorce, said Astor's secretary, the boss's wife would get half-custody of seven-year-old William Henry, a $1 million settlement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 19, 1943 | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...Boys Leave Home. In Montville, N.J., state troopers finally (1 a.m.) found seven-year-old Eugene Rodwell, who had run away from home in his underwear and slippers. Reason: he was faced with a bath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...Boys, Toys Medals, honorary degrees, tributes on parchment are good toys for adults, but a boy wants something on wheels. Thus, the model Hurricane fighter (with rubber tires) which the R.A.F. gave Iraq's seven-year-old King Feisal last year was just right. En route to Feisal last week was another device, a belated Christmas present: a three-foot-long General Grant tank with a swiveling turret. It had wheels in stead of treads, but the chains were gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

This was the partially told story which censors released last week from Bridgetown, Barbados, B.W.I., where the exhausted survivors were recovering. There were few details given, but officials did pass the statement of one survivor, who gratefully recalled the courage of seven-year-old Carol Shaw and Brother Richard, of Mary and Robert Bell. Said he: "They kept us going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: The Young and Hopeful | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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