Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disturbed" over stories that Margaret had talked her into anything. Said Don: "Some people have an aversion to child actresses, but I haven't. Nor do I have a personal aversion to Margaret, except when she interferes with my marriage . . . I'm the middleman all the way through in this case. I can't do battle with a little child. But there's just so much a man can take...
...Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave way to bored impatience. "Oh, bother," said Great Britain's princess, "and I've only just learned to spell York...
Whatever Elizabeth did, Margaret followed in her own unpredictable way. When Elizabeth set out a neat garden of daffodils and tulips, Margaret planted rows of potatoes and pulled them all up to see how they were doing. While Elizabeth fondled her ponies and puppies, Margaret made pets of a salamander and a speckled toad. When Elizabeth won a certificate for lifesaving, Margaret had her day: she heaved her sister's pet Corgi into the pond on the day of a Buckingham Palace garden party and dived in after him, triumphant and heroic in her best party dress...
...president, his flashy sport shirts and his flashing ideas on education. When he first came to Rollins, he had found it little more than a playboy's paradise, "so far down the education hole, that the only place it could go was up." By last week, a long way up, Rollins had made a name for itself as a lively, unorthodox pacesetter among U.S. colleges...
...quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question: would he consider leaving Glyndebourne and his great Edinburgh Festival (TIME, Sept. 20) to succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing the artistically and financially ailing Met. Said Bing: "I have not the slightest idea. How can I have before I have learned all about the Met?" Bing and the Met reached an agreement last month, but withheld the announcement...