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Engaged. Arthur Cheney Train, 50, famed novelist, author of The Needle's Eye, His Children's Children, etc.; to Mrs. Helen Coster Gerard, former sister-in-law of James W. Gerard, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Ambassador to Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

Hermione is shocked. Hermione wants to marry her cousin Orestes. Helen does not like the straight-laced young fellow and would prefer her to marry Pyrrhus, the daredevil son of Achilles. Then there is the rumor that Eteoneus, the gatekeeper, brings to Menelaus: "Your sister-in-law Clytemnestra-your double sister-in-law, I might say; your wife's sister and your brother's wife-has been living with Aegisthus ever since Agamemnon went to Troy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Menelaus* | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Sidney Drew, 35, widow of the actor, sister-in-law of famed actor John Drew, sometime cinema actress for the old Vitagraph Co. under the direction of her husband; at Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 16, 1925 | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

Rumored strife in the Booth family, heads of the Salvation Army (TIME, Oct. 5) was once more patiently denied. Mrs. Bramwell Booth, wife of the General (English Salvation Army leader) and sister-in-law of Commander Evangeline (U. S. Salvation Army leader) arrived in Manhattan going to Winnipeg for a Canadian convention of the Salvation Army. Said she: "I had a warm welcome by radio from my sister, Commander Evangeline Booth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young man) is always playing games or motoring or dancing and gives no time to serious study. I was able to do so when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: READ, READ, READ! | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

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