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Dempsey, a youthful 59, briefly wooed a wealthy widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

...University had Manter Hall, no longer under the commendable direction of its founder, William ("The Widow") Nolen '87, and the University Tutors legally enjoined from selling lecture notes, the property of the University by common law. A Student Council investigation followed, condemning the activities of the tutoring schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Cramming to Comprehension | 2/5/1955 | See Source »

...orderly work of the cops and courts unquestionably relieved the tensions that had built up during the most tragic fortnight in Panama's history. Cecilia Remón, Chichi's widow, took to the radio to ask the people to give the government of new President Ricardo (Dickie) Arias wholehearted cooperation. He in turn promised to carry on Remón's policies. The first public laugh of the troubled new year was provided by haughty ex-President Arnulfo Arias (no kin to Dickie), who as Remón's ancient enemy was jailed after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Toward a Trial | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell is convinced that all faiths do harm." He defines faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence." The code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bloomer Philosopher | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

Married. Mrs. Mona Harrison Williams, 57, perennially "best dressed" widow of Public Utilitycoon Harrison Williams, who left her the bulk of his estimated $12 million fortune when he died 14 months ago, aged 80; and Count Albert Edward Bismarck, 51, interior decorator and grandson of Prince Otto von Bismarck, first chancellor of the German Empire; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Edgewater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 17, 1955 | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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