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...from motherless, day or night, is the weeping infant in the Union Central Life Insurance Co. advertisement. He is Robert Jr., happy 18-month-old son of Lawyer & Mrs. Robert Burch of Winnetka, swank Chicago suburb. The Burches let their son pose as a favor to their friend, Photographer Arthur Dailey of Evanston, Ill., who had received an order for "a photo of a healthy baby with lots of personality, crying as if its heart would break ... a cry of neglect and not of anger." Photographer Dailey worked for more than an hour to make happy Baby Burch feel neglected...
Died. Valentine Laura Chandor, 59, headmistress of Manhattan's swank Spence School, founder of the Chandor School which merged with Spence three years ago (TIME, May 16, 1932); in Manhattan...
...indirection Dr. Lewis told off some notable Groton virtues. Groton boys use good English, so good that six have received 100% on the College Board Examination. Their manners are flawless. They are never uncouth. They obey all the major laws. Their record as public servants is unique among swank schools. And if spiritual ideals are less evident, that is no fault of Endicott Peabody...
...Annie Laurie" was born in Wisconsin, daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. Educated at swank finishing schools, she went on the stage, quit when she was handed a burlesque role. On the strength of several letters she had had printed in the Chicago Tribune, she got a job there, held it a week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things...
...native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna, but the Chicote Bar, a beer cellar known as "Zum Lustigen Walfisch." a drugstore in the Calle Sevilla, the bar of the Capitol Building, the Lyons Silk Shop, and the swank offices of International Telephone...