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Business Expense. In Denver, Laundress Velma Dunlap won a divorce after she told the judge that her husband gave her money only once during their marriage, when he forked over $4 so she could advertise for more washing and ironing to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...Walter Reilly,' said Velma, looking at Father Fabre to see if he followed her . . . 'Let me taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil Inside | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Powers takes a Waughspish delight in lampooning vulgarity. The Presence of Grace is about a sociable young curate, Father Fabre, who unwittingly dignifies a liaison between one of his parishioners, Mrs. Mathers, and her non-Catholic paramour, Mr. Pint, by dining with them and Mr. Pint's daughter Velma. The high comic humors of the story and the evening revolve around an old-fashioned ice cream freezer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Devil Inside | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...Miss Middleton's first name is Velma, not "Thelma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NAME CALLING | 12/15/1952 | See Source »

...mining engineer and big-game hunter named Leslie Simson. He found a home for the carcasses at the academy, and when he died in 1940 left $100,000 to insure their proper display. Academy Director of Exhibits Cecil Tose, who did the taxidermy himself, directed the project. Prop Artist Velma Harris cut and painted the paper vegetation-and, incidentally, put to good use some African bamboo stalks that had been in the storeroom for 21 years. Two painstaking realists, Belmore Brown and Toshio Asaeda, did the background landscapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: AFRICA UNDER GLASS | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

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