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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malcolm produced a shriveled, 64-year-old soothsayer named Thelma Harrison to swear that she had acted as housekeeper of a town flat and a country cottage used by Lady Campbell and another corespondent, Mr. Brian Lewis, son of Shipping Tycoon Lord Essenden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Affair of Honor | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Married. Mary Averell Harriman, 23, daughter of Railroad Tycoon W. Averell Harriman (Union Pacific); and Dr. Shirley Carter Fisk, 29; at Arden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Brisk British Tycoon John Richard Sofio, chairman of the board of British Home Stores (a chain of 60 cheap stores with a 1939 gross of ?15,000,000), admitted when he arrived in the U. S. that business was good, particularly in one item: because of blackouts Britons have bought millions of electric torches (flashlights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 6, 1940 | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

Died. Willard Underbill Taylor, 70, lawyer, yachtsman, brother of Steel Tycoon Myron C. Taylor; of heart disease; in Garden City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

Died. Anne Harriman Sands Rutherford Vanderbilt, 76, dowager socialite, daughter of Railroad Tycoon Oliver Harriman, follower of Cultist Oom the Omnipotent; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan. Her first husband, Sportsman Samuel Stevens Sands, was killed riding to hounds in 1889; her second, Racquet Champion Louis Morris Rutherford, died in 1892; her third, Yachtsman William Kissam Vanderbilt, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1940 | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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