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Lewis Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, took a Manchester audience into his confidence on the subject of his daughter, Sharman, 21, who shares with her close friend, Princess Margaret, a liking for the gay social whirl. Confessed Douglas: "My daughter is quite beyond me. There is little I can say about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...students did not always look typical, but wherever they went, they created a minor whirl. Some of them tangled with the ultra-polite. London Bobbies who had to remind them that British traffic really did run on the left-hand side of the road. Some penetrated the iron curtain and became small international incidents before AMG authorities got them released from jail...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: Thousands of US Students Migrate To Europe for Summer Study, Play | 10/13/1949 | See Source »

Harvard Square, Cambridge's nationally notorious traffic intersection, is in a whirl this month. The City Planning Board, in another desperate attempt to unsnarl the pedestrians from the buses from the cars, is experimenting with a rotary traffic plan. So far, the daily scrimmage of man against machine has grown only more exciting, hardly any less dangerous...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...Berkleys of Broadway. A tuneful new whirl with cinema's best dance team: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

Vienna once exported a type of musical comedy which brought the world much pleasure and had many virtues. Realism was not one of the virtues. Yet in the whirl of ravishing gypsies disguised as archdukes and ravishing archdukes disguised as gypsies there usually appeared a suggestion, not of life, but of how a generation thought life ought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Dollar Princess | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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