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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Childhood: Born Feb. 5, 1900, in Los Angeles, where his father was assistant general manager of Hearst's Examiner. When Adlai was six, the family returned to Bloomington, Ill., where Adlai and his sister Elizabeth (now Mrs. Ernest Ives of Chicago, wife of a wealthy retired U.S. diplomat) grew up. Not a sturdy boy, he often got into fights to prove that he was not a sissy, suffered a broken nose two or three times in that cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...married and divorced raven-haired Empress Fawzia, Farouk's beautiful younger sister. She is now married to Ismail Shirene Bey. Farouk's attempt to make his brother-in-law War Minister was the final spark that set off last week's army revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Of Mobs & Monarchs | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Guay was hanged 18 months ago. Scheduled for execution in October: Ruest's sister, Mrs. Marguerite Pitre, who carried the bomb to the airport and checked it on to the plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Judgment of Death | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting. The trouble, said Tommy, was with Anita. How about wife No. 10? After the details of this divorce are cleaned up, said Manville, he might consider marrying Anita's twin sister. "I am probably very much in love with her. It wouldn't be bad, son, it wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Brown Study | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...Strange Ones. Striking adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terribles; the story of an adolescent brother & sister living in a strange dreamworld of their own (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Aug. 4, 1952 | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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