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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occupational Hazards. In Sarasota, Victoria, the circus lady who hangs by her teeth from the big top biting a leather thong went to the dentist for some fillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Thanks for your interesting review of Victoria Through the Looking-Glass (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

...conquest of castles became commonplace. In her 300-room castle at Nordkirchen, Princess Valerie-Marie of Schleswig-Holstein, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, ran her fingers through marcelled hair at the sight of bearded G.I.s tracking mud on her carpets. When she was confined to 14 gilded chambers, she wrung her hands and protested: "It's absurd, this tiny wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Chaos -- and Comforts | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...VICTORIA THROUGH THE LOOKINGGLASS: The Life of Lewis Carroll-Florence Becker Lennon - Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Mousetraps and Notepaper. In the 387 pages of Victoria Through the Looking-Glass, Author Lennon, a minor U.S. poet and a student of anthropology, tries to answer her own question. To the tantalizing riddle of literary genius she has no answer, but she has brought together a fascinating collection of facts that show clearly the fantastically divided nature of the deacon who was equally a rigid, exemplary don and perhaps the most brilliant eccentric...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Eccentric | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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