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...Hollywood's version of The Lost Weekend, it was the dubbed-in songs of Theodora Lynch Getty that drove the dipsomaniac hero to drink. Last week, tall, easygoing Singer Theodora Getty, 30, wife of Oilman J. Paul Getty and granddaughter of Chicago's late, famed Clothier Henry C. Lytton, was trying to drive all Hollywood to drink something else-pure Hereford water from Deaf Smith County, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theodora's Tap | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Hollywood, the drinking of bottled water has become a mark of class; only such lowlifes as $1,000-a-week writers drink tap water. Theodora thought that she would have something special with her water from Hereford, where tooth decay is almost unknown, supposedly because of fluorine in the water (TIME, Nov. 10, 1941). She sewed up commercial rights with the town of Hereford ("For all the water we'll ever need"), and leased a 10,000-gallon railway tank car to haul the water to Hollywood at $1,100 a trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theodora's Tap | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

Basketball: letters: Charlotte Coe '51, Mary March '51, Mary Brandt '51, Janet Stewart '50, Numerals: Frances Buhrig '52, Ellen Guild '52, Ann Hunt '52, Emily Ingraham '51, Dianne Wertz '51, Theodora Whatmough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 'Cliffedwellers Win A.A. Awards | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...Eighth Commandment. In Long Beach, Calif., Librarian Theodora Brewitt announced with relief that 1948 had been an unusual year: no one had stolen a Bible from the city library...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...Smiths. In Los Angeles, Obstetrician Donald G. Tollefson, assisted by Nurses Jean Smith and Theodora Smith, delivered within ten hours Stephanie Smith, Lenny Smith and Douglas Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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