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...Slender, shy Sheila Dora Carstens was born to white parents in color-conscious Cape Town, attended white schools. When she was 17, Sheila's father died. For a while she lived with a colored woman (meaning, in South Africa, of mixed blood) who took care of her, and in 1945 she married a colored man. Sheila's family turned their backs on her. Last year, after her husband died she met Ronald Awood, a truck driver, handsome, quiet, and colored. Sheila and Awood lived together. Then, with a child coming, they tried to get married. But Sheila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Over the Line | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

Where today, for example, could one find a conveyance with the elaborate coach-work of a pre-World War I Rolls Royee? Perched high on the radiator is a charming piece of statnary, a slender, lightly dressed young female--Psyche (famed of White Rock labels, myth, and poetry), the Rolls mascot emblem...

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Emir Hussein of Jordan, 15, slender, bookwormish grandson of King Abdullah and likeliest to succeed to Abdullah's vacant throne. A lonely, taciturn adolescent who dislikes sports, he differs strikingly from his fun-loving cousin, Iraq's Feisal. Despite his captain's commission in the Jordan army, Hussein prefers collecting guns to firing them. He is a bright student at Victoria College, a British school in Alexandria, Egypt, but hates the British, hopes eventually to chuck them out of Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TEEN-AGE ROYALTY | 7/30/1951 | See Source »

Outside the Iron Curtain, the dancing genius of slender, 41-year-old Galina Ulanova was mainly legend. She had danced publicly only in the Soviet Union, had rarely traveled outside its borders. Last week, for the first time, a representative Western European audience had a chance to see Ulanova dance in a concert performance at Florence. The general verdict: she is the world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bis! Bis! | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...four lines using Stratocruisers. One line (United) got $1,200,000 worth of free parts. At home with his family, Rentschler relaxes-like an engine idling. He usually takes a Martini or two before dinner, and may sip champagne afterward. With both daughters married, he and his slender, attractive wife Faye live pretty much by themselves. Winters they spend in their Spanish villa near Florida's Boca Raton Club, where Rentschler plays tennis well enough to take on ex-Wimbledon Champion Fred Perry. He travels back & forth to East Hartford-as well as everywhere else-by plane. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Mr. Horsepower | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

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