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...pioneer is 75-year-old Baron Dickinson, unless one takes seriously his description of himself as "one of the Originators of the League of Nations.''* A raring pusher into pastures new, however, is his spinster sister, 70-year-old Annie J. Dickinson. Last week she again was on the rampage, this time to supply Yugoslavia with many a W. S. (Wanderer's Shelter), each boasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pioneers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...Spinster Dickinson War-nursed all over what is now Yugoslavia. She shares the enthusiasm of hundreds of Britons, Germans and Americans who have discovered that rustic Yugoslavia, cheap, romantic and wildly beautiful, would be a vacation Eden, if only the food were not so coarse, the sheets so grey, the inside plumbing so rare. Last week indomitable Miss Dickinson had undertaken the flotation of The Wanderer's Shelters Ltd. and was busy designing and ordering hostels and furniture. Said Pioneer Dickinson: "Our small hotels and guest houses will be dotted over the lesser known, completely unspoiled rural districts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pioneers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

...airmail. On its regular Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Miss & Mail | 1/14/1935 | See Source »

...they waited, enduring their enforced semicolon, gradually revealing to each other the meaning of their unfinished sentences. Julian was a bachelor, suave, middleaged; John, a talented young artist, was his son, though unaware of the fact. They amused themselves by observing their fellow travellers: a Jewish salesman, a secretarial spinster, an amiable widow, two girl chums, a pair of honeymooners. One by one their travelling disguises were discarded. The spinster, frantically trying to catch a boat at Corunna, because she had never yet failed her egomaniac boss, attempted to walk it, was brought back with sunstroke and a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Buses | 12/31/1934 | See Source »

Anne Morgan, president of the American Woman's Association, and stately spinster sister of J. Pierpont Morgan, advised fellow Manhattan social workers : I do not believe the feminist principle is our solution. I am a frantic believer in women's solidarity, and by that I do not mean at all an anti-man stand, but rather the development of the capacity to stand and work together. . . . I am not a feminist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

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