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Blanche Vabre, even bigger and more forbidding than Mme. David, chopped off the ten fingers which her 16-year-old stepson had raised in terror to protect his throat, and with another slash almost severed the boy's neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Four Furies | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Violinist Pochon is the wittiest and most talkative of the four. He had studied medicine, composed chamber music. His wife is a Virginian; he has a stepson of 14 and one child of his own. Cellist D'Archambeau is also married. Violinist Betti and Viola-player Moldavan are both bachelors, the one confirmed, the other eligible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flonzaley Farewell | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Married. Claire Luce, dancer (Follies, No Foolin'), aviatrix; and Clifford Warren Smith, stepson of President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

Stevenson designed and cut the three woodcut plates to illustrate poems, which he had written to amuse his stepson, who owned a small printing press, and printed the verses with Stevenson's illustrations. Two of these books are shown, with the titles. "Lawks! What a Beautiful Flower," and "Moral Emblems...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

...amuse his stepson further, Stevenson drew a map of an island, with hidden treasure, which later led to the writing of "Treasure Island." A reproduction of this map is given as the frontispiece of the first edition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

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