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...Habebit Humus. In Stafford, England, Violet Shaw, 64, learning that her late husband already had another wife when he married her in 1938, sued his estate for breach of promise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 29, 1954 | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...Caster of Matthews won the freshman epee tournament, with Bing Stafford, also of Matthews and winner of the sabre, runner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Takes Fencing As Villers Wins Epee | 3/25/1954 | See Source »

...SHORT NOVELS (188 pp.)-Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Etnier, Clyde Miller, Shelby Foote-Ballantine (cloth $2.75, paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worth the Money | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

Most disturbing of the three is Jean Stafford's expertly written A Winter's Tale. With its prewar Heidelberg setting (where Author Stafford was once a student), its subtle mixture of Nazi erosion, false piety and neurotic love, this is not a story for those who want happy endings. Domineering Frau Professor Gait is hated not only by her husband and her young American visitor, but by her young lover as well. To the American girl who takes the lover away briefly before he goes on military maneuvers, he seems at once preoccupied, cruel and dead inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Worth the Money | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 12, 1953 | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

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