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John Jacob Astor, assisted by his chauffeur, whisked a piglet to a swank Manhattan pet hospital from the Astor farm in Basking Ridge, N.J. Hospital authorities soon told the press that the patient, Silvia by name, was improving. Her trouble: undernourishment (probably as a member of too large a litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 8, 1943 | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Haikys, as Jacques Mornard van den Dreschd and sometimes simply as el tipo Judio Frances (the French-Jewish type), Trotsky knew him as an admiring young disciple who contributed generously to the Fourth International. Six months before, Jackson had been brought to him by a Manhattan social worker named Silvia Ageloff, whose sister was once Trotsky's secretary. Jackson, a tall, dark, bespectacled young man, was a Yugoslav by birth, had entered Mexico on a Canadian passport, spoke English with a Brooklyn accent (erl for oil and oil for earl). The police and armed secretaries who guarded Trotsky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Death of a Revolutionary | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

Aside from entering Rawstrom in the furlong and quarter-mile, the Gymnast coach, Charlie Silvia, won't have much to offer the Crimson mermen. Frank Powers ought to keep Rawstrom busy in the 220, while Captain Rusty Greenhood is a sure winner over Bob Monerly and Carlton Condon in the dive...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: VARSITY TANKMEN MEET SPRINGFIELD; BASKETBALL TEAM TO PLAY CORNELL | 1/11/1939 | See Source »

Last week Red, now a Yale freshman, set out to get prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Margaret Fell Lyon, leading lady of Charleston's Footlight Players, succeeded tall Monimia in the feminine lead of Silvia. Cousin Melinda was played by auburn-haired. 5 ft. 2 in. Alecia Rhett. whose ancestors attended the opening of the first Dock Street Theatre. An artist and a leader in the Footlight Players, pretty 21-year-old Alecia may contribute more than her family name to the film production of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.* She has a contract (without wages) for a part in the forthcoming Hollywood production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Oldest Theatre | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

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