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Stockholm moviegoers attending the opening of Susan Lennox saw the star's mother, brother, sister-in-law, U. S. Minister John Motley Morehead (whose wife lately bought two famed paintings from the Ivar Kreuger estate). Absent, though in Sweden, was the star: Greta Garbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 26, 1932 | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

...Salt Lake City, Bert Fairclough, attending a family party, asked his sister-in-law for a kiss. When she refused he bit off her nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISCELLANY: Couplet | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

...Archduke Anton of Habsburg, was ready to leave Vienna for Carlsbad to discuss christening arrangements with Alfonso & Victoria of Spain. She suggested that her son-in-law Anton, able aviator, fly her there. The Archduke was in no mood to leave his wife and six-day-old son. But Mother-in-law Marie would entrust her life to no other pilot. Archduke Anton gave in, was further vexed by delay when his sister-in-law, Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, lost her way driving them to the airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 29, 1932 | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...Strange River, is a timid, rich, unambitious young man whose growing neurasthenia takes the uninteresting form of preoccupation with the petty details of his own life. He lives in a menage a trois with his wife, with whom he is only on speaking terms, and his older sister-in-law. Eliane, just shivering on the verge of old-maidhood. Eliane knows Philip better than he knows himself, knows also all about her sister's lover, does not resent Philip being cuckolded because she loves him herself. Her minute caretaking of him gets on Philip's nerves, but it never occurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Proust | 8/29/1932 | See Source »

...last fortnight (TIME, July 4). Fox Film Corp, last week sued to recover possibly $10,000,000 from Filman Fox, Jack G. Leo, a former vice president, and partners in M. J. ("Mike") Meehan's brokerage house, which handled many a Fox pool. A sister-in-law, Mrs. Aaron Fox, came forward too, with a $250,000 suit in behalf of her children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals & Developments | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

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