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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cornelius Vander Starr, No. 1 life insurer in the Far East, real-estate speculator, owner of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury and a TiMEstyle China newsmagazine. East. Ten months ago the editor of Starr's Ta Mei Wan Pao, Chinese edition of the Evening Post & Mercury, was shot dead as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek. Last April Starr's newspaper plant was bombed, killing three Chinese and an Annamese policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Order in Shanghai | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Died. Ellen Gates Starr, 80, co-founder with the late Jane Addams of Chicago's famed Hull House; after long illness; in Suffern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...cars. Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries ("Don't take it serious, it's too mysterious"*) expressed the nonchalant response to Depression. Bobby Jones had a Manhattan triumph after winning the British Amateur and Open tournaments. Eugenie hats appeared, and so did the beautiful body of Starr Faithfull on a Long Island beach. Richard Whitney spoke in Philadelphia on "Business Honesty," while "in many pretty houses, wives who had never before-in the revealing current phrase-'done their own work' were cooking and scrubbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scary and Screwy | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Caroline Starr Balestier Kipling, 73, American-born widow of English Rudyard Kipling; in her home, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex. Kipling was born Dec. 30, 1865, she Dec. 31, 1865; they were married Jan. 18, 1892; he died, with her at his bedside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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