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Engaged, Ishbel Allan MacDonald. 55, onetime (1924, 1929-35) hostess at No. 10 Downing Street (for her widowed father, the late Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald). now keeper of the Plow Inn, Speen, Bucks.; to Norman ("Tinker") Ridgley, 35, house painter, electrician's helper, ditchdigger, gardener, drummer in Speen's band, regular customer at the Plow, topflight darts player; in Leeds, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

Chauncey B. Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale and well-known author, resumed last night the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in a lecture entitled "Blake: The Gates of Paradise." His general subject is Literary Tenedencies in English Painting from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tinker Lectures | 2/9/1938 | See Source »

Tonight, in the New Lecture Hall, at eight o'clock, the Vagabond will hear Dr. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale University, speak on "Gainsborough: The Return to Nature," in one of his Charles Eliot Norton lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/30/1937 | See Source »

Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry here and Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale, lectures tonight in "Reynolds Romantic Tendencies" at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tinker Lectures Tonight On Romantic Bent of Reynolds | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

...lecture is free, open to the public and illustrated. It is the third in the series of Norton Lectures by Dr. Tinker on "Literary Tendencies in English Paintings, 1740-1820." Next week's subject is "Gainsborough. The Return to Nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tinker Lectures Tonight On Romantic Bent of Reynolds | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

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