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...Marchesa Tarleto Zucchini's, the talk was of fashions. Peplums will be worn this year. And the most nondescript of buff tweed suits-startlingly-with a magnificent sable coat. The startling is what often gives the fresh touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...year-old Boss of Manhattan became Convict No. 78,719, was given a job as a gardener in the prison greenhouse. Fellow prisoners treated him with respect. Jimmy Hines, whose grandfather had been a Tammany captain under Boss Tweed, and whose father had been a Tammany captain under Boss Croker, thought of his conviction as political persecution. He began writing a book in which he pictured himself as a victim of injustice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Terms fof Jimmy | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Divorce Revealed. Of Navy Chief Radioman George Ray Tweed, 42, "The Ghost of Guam"; and Mary Frances Tweed, 27, mother of two; on Aug. 8, six years after their marriage (his first, her second), three weeks after he came home on furlough after 31 months of hide& -seek with Guam's Jap occupation forces, (TIME, Aug. 21); in San Diego, Calif. One of the allegations: she insulted the wives of other servicemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Nevertheless Tweed was mightily pleased to learn later that he had passed the examination which he had taken before the Japs came to Guam. It was a reward, after 20 years in the Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Killed in Action. Captain George C. Grey, 26, Liberal, youngest member of Parliament. Elected to the House of Commons at 23 for Berwick-on-Tweed, he followed the footsteps of his late relative, Viscount Grey of Fallodon, who represented the same borough at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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