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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Is there any reason why, because the recently deceased wife of the Austrian actor, Oscar Homolka,* happened to be a Baroness Hatvany, TIME should leap to the conclusion that it must be the former wife of Baron Ludwig Hatvany, better known to the world as the playwright and novelist, Christa Winsloe? ..." The Baroness Vally Hatvany was a young actress, and. according to your own report was 24 years old, which should immediately have cast doubts in your mind on her identity with Miss Winsloe, whose famous play and film Maedchen in Uniform appeared in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...ball. At a luncheon given by Mayor Burnet Maybank, Mr. Garner made news by opening the closet and displaying the current Democratic family skeleton. Referring to a "misunderstanding between me and my boss" (by whom he meant President Roosevelt) he said: "I sometimes do not agree with my wife. You can understand. . . . But that does not take away my love and affection for this lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Azaleas | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...moved in the opposite direction. All three candidates began speaking in the north, on the theory that the south half of the State was too busy to think about politics until the tourists left by April 1. Arriving early in March in Tallahassee, where he and his pretty young wife used to have a suite in the Emilie at the Quintuplet Apartments, Senator Pepper was promptly laid low for two weeks by an attack of grippe. Net consequence was to give a head start to his energetic rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...edge of his bed for half-an-hour each morning while he simultaneously plans his day in detail and massages his head to improve the circulation in his brain. Unlike Dave Sholtz who makes a point of stopping at a second-rate hotel wherever possible, Mr. Wilcox and his wife-who calls her 5 ft. 6 in. husband "the little giant" and whose social rivalry with Mrs. Pepper is rumored to be one reason for her husband's desire to sit in the Senate-invariably choose the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pepper v. Sholtz v. Wilcox | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...that the man of '28 is an enterprising gambler. He bet a Yale boy $5 on every single event between John H. and Eli Y. To collect, clippings must be produced. Things were going along about even until the other night he chanced to run into his enemy's wife at dinner. She proceeded to produce six items telling the sad tale of six recent Harvard defeats in various forms of competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 4/28/1938 | See Source »

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