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Married. Diana Barrymore, 25, actress-daughter of the late, oft-wed Great Profile and Poetess Michael Strange (Mrs. Oelrichs Tweed); to John Howard, 23, tennis pro; both for the second time; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 27, 1947 | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features of Father Potter. She often wore big wooden-soled clogs, and skirts of hard, crude tweed, woven from the wool of her own sheep and fastened at the back with a safety-pin-creating such an impression that a tramp, passing her once in a rainstorm, called sympathetically: "It's sad weather for the likes o' thee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small but Authentic Genius | 11/11/1946 | See Source »

...brushed past the men in the heavy rimmed glasses who were fluttering around the dirty-legged Radcliffe girl on the steps of Emerson. "Buster, things have changed," he said to one of the tweed jackets. The answer was an unseeing eye. "The New England Frappe Bar, men with women and General Education." Vag agreed with himself-- "Things have certainly changed." He elbowed his way through the perfumed corridor to audit a general education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/22/1946 | See Source »

...TWEED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Divorced. By Diana Barrymore, 25, actress daughter of the late great profile and Poetess "Michael Strange" (now Mrs. Harrison Tweed): Bramwell Fletcher, 42, British-born actor; after four years of marriage, no children; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 8, 1946 | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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