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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife and mused, "I wonder what church that...

Author: By S. A. Karnow, | Title: Circling the Square | 1/30/1948 | See Source »

Actress Annabella, wife of Tyrone Power (next-to-next-to-latest friend of Lana), got around to suing for divorce after almost nine years of marriage, 15 months of admitted separation. The day she filed suit, Husband Ty welcomed Actress Linda Christian home from Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...machine with its 4,000,000-odd "adherents" that copes with this worldwide problem of spiritual and material logistics is a very different organization from the little band of inspired amateurs who first surrounded William Booth and his wife Catherine. And the faith has mellowed, if not changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Shock Troops | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Married. David Niven, 37, sparrowy, Scottish-born cinemactor (Raffles, The Bishop's Wife), and Hjördis Demberg Tersmeden, 27, red-haired Swedish ex-model; each for the second time (his first wife died in 1946 from an accidental fall); in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...woman, who is his father's wife, Miss Amy, proceeds to hit the bluejay with a poker. This proves to be an appropriate introduction to the household. Other inmates are the languid and effeminate Cousin Randolph, Jesus Fever's granddaughter Zoo Fever, and Joel's father, Mr. Sansom, who is mysteriously sick and invisible. Joel begins to think maybe he doesn't exist. But in the evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spare the Laurels | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

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