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Ovaltine & Love. Gladys, another of the questing four, handed out nickels in a subway booth and roomed with a girl friend named Winnie. "They were always making Ovaltine and talking till all hours of the night. About deep things. Like love and why you do what you do." One day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith for Straphangers | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Soon "the silver basket in the vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Snake Oil | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

LUCILLE SYLVESTER

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1945 | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

Sylvester D. Bavo said it for the other Filipinos: "We knew that Japan could not beat America, but I do not believe my eyes when I see those so many ships. I feel like crying but I just stood and shook my head. All along the hills everybody just sang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Those So Many Ships | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

¶ Most of the defendants, having landed in their present trouble through literary composition (Lawrence Dennis, Elizabeth Dilling, George Sylvester Viereck, et al.), are now hard at work writing books giving their own versions of the trial.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairy Tale | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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