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...Haye, 54, is a sleek, well-nourished little diplomat who used to represent Vichyfrance in Washington. Fifteen months ago, when Vichy broke off relations with the U.S., M. Henry-Haye was tenderly interned (along with his pedigreed Dalmatian and his solicitous staff) in a $24-a-day suite at swank, luxurious Hotel Hershey, in Pennsylvania's pleasant Lebanon valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Diplomatic Exchange | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...searchlight of invisible infrared or ultraviolet light for seeing and signaling at night, 2) a method of broadcasting waves of the same frequency as ordinary sound. Girl. Anne Hagopian, 16, a Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School. Like Amber, she is an athlete, musician (piano) and likes to paint. A specialist in atomic theories, she plans to go to Radcliffe and become a research physicist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boy & Girl Scientists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...vacationers' sufferings. Rhode Island waxed so wroth over the stranded-tourist situation that its State Senate passed a resolution condemning Florida for withholding gas for return, trips. (Rhode Island's Governor J. Howard McGrath canceled a hard-won reservation at Miami Beach's swank Roney Plaza...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Refugees | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Cleveland's Jack & Heintz (Jahco) last week put their circus touch on lobbying. Bill Jack, Jahco's brass-lunged president, invited 525 Senators and Representatives to dine at his expense in Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel. He wanted to: 1) explain Jahco's renegotiation troubles (TIME, Jan. 24); 2) make a proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RENEGOTIATION: 5% Is Enough | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...paradoxical reason for sending children to private prep schools was offered last week to a Manhattan conference of headmasters and headmistresses. In clipped Massachusetts accents, CBS Newscaster Quincy Howe, an alumnus of Newport's swank St. George's School and son of Beacon Hill Biographer Mark A. De Wolfe Howe, declared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How to Think About Schools | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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