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...conventional U. S. success story of monumental proportions. About ten years ago he gave authority over his rich magazines. Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman, to able Editor George Horace Lorimer. His newspapers, the Philadelphia Public Ledgers, Inquirer and New York Evening Post are run by Stepson-in-Law Martin. Publisher Curtis contented himself in recent years largely with sailing up & down the Atlantic Coast on his steam yacht Lyndonia, summering at his beloved Camden, Me., eating simple fare like baked beans and fish cakes. Once in a great while he would wander into the office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Success Story | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Born. To Charles Hamilton Sabin Jr., son of the board chairman of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. and stepson of Pauline Morton Sabin, anti-Prohibition strategist; and Dorothy Layman Sabin; a son; in Manhattan. Weight: 7 Ibs., 8 oz. Name: Thomas Whitney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 13, 1933 | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

Engaged. Diana Churchill, 23, eldest daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill; and John Milner Bailey, 32, eldest son of Transvaal Gold Man Sir Abe Bailey, stepson of British Aviatrix Hon. Dame Mary Bailey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

...week. two days after the Roslyn convention, the Crusaders, 40 trustees and commanders met privately in the country home of Trustee Leonard Hanna at Mentor, Ohio, near Cleveland where the organization was formed. Plotting their part in the coming elections, the Crusader board, of which Mrs. Sabin's stepson Charles Jr. is a member, took a more cautious course than their feminine contemporaries. In a statement which leaned toward but did not embrace the candidacy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Crusaders declared: "Our position is now, as always, to support only those candidates for office, regardless of party affiliations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Ladies at Roslyn | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...named Bugg. He told funny stories (the widow at her husband's funeral who was so surprised at the preacher's eulogy that she sent her son up to look into the coffin to see if the dead man really was his "paw"); sad stories (the stepson who received a pair of brogans at Christmas while the other children got fine shoes and then complained that they hurt him not in the feet but in the heart). He treated the Senate to a long legendary account of Roland of Roncesvalles who "guarded the gate with drawn sword against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Last Heffle | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

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