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...Harlot's Guest. The hostess is an ex-prostitute named Mrs. Goodman. Among her guests: a kindly, timid intellectual, Max Ford; Max's brother Tom, physician and egocentric man of action; Father Morton, doddering, syphilitic priest; Daisy Tillet, "girl of the golden legs," to whom both brothers are attracted; Miss Black, who switched from an unfaithful Italian lover to religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tea Party | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...When Tillet was head of Bristol's potent Dockers' Union he met young Ernest Bevin (now Minister of Labor), gave him his first union job and became the strongest influence in his life. After the abdication of his good friend the Duke of Windsor he said: "I regret that that great little gentleman did not let fly ... and tell us just what the bishops and politicians, who hounded him from public life, were pressing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 8, 1943 | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Maurice Tillet, the French Angel (as opposed to the new Swedish Angel) paid a scientific visit to the University again yesterday, but this time he came not as a specimen, but as a student. For an hour, Tillet and his manager, Carl Pojello (former coach of wrestling at Oxford and Cambridge) browsed around Peabody Museum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANGEL LEAVES RING TO VISIT PEABODY | 12/11/1942 | See Source »

...Hollywood for a wrestling match, Maurice ("The Angel") Tillet, fearsome-faced French wrestler, let himself be photographed strolling down Vine Street with Starlet Suzanne Ridgway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Last week, back in his garish world of grab-grunt-&-grimace, M. Tillet wrestled in Washington against one Alan Eustace. Five hundred would-be spectators were turned away from the small arena and, as usual, the Angel won, in 10½ minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Angel Measured | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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