Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WHEN Contributing Editor Spencer L. Davidson went down to Herman Talmadge's 2,400-acre plantation below Atlanta for a closeup of this week's cover subject, he discovered that his visit was a bit untimely. It was the tail end of the dove season, and Governor Talmadge, an ardent hunter, was eager to get out into the millet fields. Writer Davidson, a city boy from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired...
...TIME, July 4, 1955), borrowed the glowing technique developed by the Dutch masters. His ready-for-eating apple, raisins and sugar-coated cake, by their closely observed rendering bring a glow of appreciation and recognition. Maine's late great eccentric, Marsden Hartley (1878-1943), with Flowers from Claire Spencer's Garden in a white crockery pitcher testified to his love for Maine more intimately and no less glowingly than with the blunt, powerful landscapes he did of Mt. Katahdin...
...first visit to Spencer, Ind., his American mother's home town (pop. 2,394), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution...
Never before had Question permitted such a heavily advertised star on the premises. Randolph Frederick Edward Spencer Churchill is 45, greying, a choleric soldier of fortune, ladies' club lecturer, sometime correspondent for the London Evening Standard and only son of Sir Winston. "And now," said Hal March, "the time has come to play the game." Big Game-Player Churchill picked his favorite category: No. 6-the English language...
...Family Tree. Despite this setback the debutante did well (three corsages to wear on Easter Sunday), and she married "strong, assured, sophisticated" Lieut, (j.g.) Earl Winfield Spencer Jr., with whom she lived the life of a Navy wife from Peking to Pensacola. Alas, came the terrible time when Lieut. Spencer, who had begun to hit the bottle with naval thoroughness, locked her in the bathroom. Despite family pleas-"the Montague women do not get divorced"-Wallis felt it was time to set a precedent...