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Born. To Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane de Toth), 25, cinemac tress who popularized the sheep-dog hairdo, and Andre de Toth, 32, Hungarian-born cinema director: their first child, a son (she has a daughter by a previous marriage) ; in Hollywood. Name Andre Michael de Toth II. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark Twain's portable writing desk ($125); a dagger owned by Rudolph Valentino ($200); a letter from Field Marshal Rommel to his wife, dated October 1943, which read: "Russian campaign going well. . . . Americans not ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Idea Man | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Shrubbery and tress have been imitated by dyed sheep's wool. The roads have been traced by cloth strapping and houses, placed exactly where ones now stand, have been built of wood and painted. Metal strips have been mailed down to resemble railroad tracks and strips of dark cloth represent the brooks and streams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: -:-MUZZLEBLAST -:- | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...looked out he could just glimpse a corner of the clock in Memorial Hall tower. But that New windowseat, a bigger, softer, less intimate one--well, the Vagabond wasn't exactly sure of the view from it. Perhaps an unfamiliar smattering of Lowell tower, a few hurricane-slain tress, a foot or so of Drive and Charles; and the clock now brazenly and imperatively in full view, no doubt. The rest of his uprooted belongings, including the radio which squeals, were also set up in a New territory, embarrassed, trying to regain their Old composure, to melt dustily and uncomplainingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...great mosque in Constantinople. *Psychology and Religion-Yale University Tress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Symbols & Religion | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

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