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Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1932 | 5/9/1932 | See Source »

...Aldrich, Donald Armstrong. LeR. M. Backus, Thomas Balmer, C. L. Barber, Donald Bates, R. S. Baxter, A. H. Beck, Jean Bertolet, Frederick Bolman, B. S. Bowen, R. C. Boys, B. M. Bowie, J. H. Braddock, Bruce Brown, D. J. Buckley, Donald Bullard, A. D. Cadman, E. T. Canby, C. E. Cheever, C. R. Cherington R. N. Clattenberg, J. P. Coolidge, John Cornell, J. C. Cort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEWS FROM THE HOUSES | 5/3/1932 | See Source »

...commercial artist. Fascinated by typography, he worked in Boston under the greatest type designer the U. S. has produced, Frederic William Goudy, and under one of the two greatest printers: Daniel Berkeley Updike of the Merrymount Press. (The other: Free Lance Bruce Rogers.) Typographer Dwiggins wrote the advertising agencies' Bible, Layout in Advertising. He has designed several beautiful type faces and for many years has been retained by famed Mergenthaler Linotype Co. as typographical consultant. His passion for fine handwriting caused him to found the Society of Calligraphers. He still serves as its secretary under the pseudonym of Hermann Puterschein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Decorous Jubilee | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

...wise Londoners anticipated that Mr. Mellon would make the U. S. Embassy at Princes Gate a brighter social centre than it has been for years. His daughter, Mrs. David K. Este Bruce, was to arrive next month to act as his official hostess. With him already was his trusted friend and speechwriter David Edward Finley who after serving as special assistant in the Treasury, had now been made an honorary Secretary of the Embassy. Less than a week after his arrival would come Ambassador Mellon's first trial-by-banquet?the Pilgrim Dinner, with Edward of Wales present to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mellon in London | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

...hurl such a proclamation at high-spirited New South Welshmen was risky. "But surely every step must be taken!" cried Premier Lyons' wealthy Cabinet colleague Stanley Melbourne Bruce. "Surely everything possible must be done to check this man [Premier Lang] who is a menace to Australia in his mad career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Tax Snatching | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

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