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Ruth Mitchell, the late General "Billy's" sister, and by her own account an energetic dagger-bearer with the Chetniks (TIME, April 14, 1941), settled in Reno for a divorce. She has been separated for eleven years from her second husband, Stanley Knowles, a British schoolmaster...
...Italian Order makes the bearer an honorary hereditary cousin of the King of Italy. The motto on the collar of the Order: FERT...
Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden, onetime egg-bearer for Thurston the Magician, became the long-suffering Amos, and Charles J. Correll, onetime Peoria bricklayer, became turgid, blustering Andy, they have had but one vacation -eight weeks in 1934. Now 43 and 52, respectively, they have salted away plenty, earned a rest. Their last reported salary (1938) was $7,500 weekly...
...rupees-Bearers. A bearer is a personal servant. You've got to have one. He gets your laundry done and takes your telegrams to cable office...
...died and left 25 lb. of metal cups and badges to the local campaign. A woman in Cohoes, N.Y. donated an iron bench she used to sit on beside her Spanish-American War veteran husband's grave. The old cruiser Olympia, flagship to Admiral Dewey at Manila and bearer in 1921 of the body of the Unknown Soldier, started to have her 5,865 tons reduced to scrap...