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...Abbott, publisher of the once-powerful Negro Chicago Defender, was soot-black. His two wives were white as snow. Wife No. 1 went around with her brownskin sister in order to prove that she was a Negro. Wife No. 2-Nordic-featured, with grey-blue eyes and straight chestnut hair-had no discernible relatives, dark or white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Defender and Skeleton | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Anyone not immediately eligible for the draft may join up, although Massachusetts men are preferred. Men not acceptable to the Draft Board for minor reasons are also eligible. Applicants should contact a captain of the Guard, Felix W. Knauth '18, of 26 Circuit Road, Chestnut Hill, or George E. Abbot '17, of 10 Circuit Road, or else call at the Commonwealth Armory at 8 o'clock tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS WANTED FOR STATE GUARD | 3/19/1941 | See Source »

David B. Arnold, Jr., of Thayer Hall, Noble and Greenough School, and Chestnut Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Select Ten Committee Members For Stag Smoker and Jubilee in Spring | 2/27/1941 | See Source »

Iceman Uline guaranteed weight and measure, cut his cakes with a machine that left extra ice to allow for meltage. He developed a cubing machine now sold around the world. Today he sells four sizes of ice cubes - rice, chestnut, nut, egg. For 45? he gives 20-minute delivery of 100 cubes plus a cocktail recipe. His record order was for a 1936 jamboree of 3,000 delegates to the Third World Power Conference in the rotunda of Washington's Union Station, where Iceman Uline deposited 25 tons of ice cubes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Ice Woman and Ice Man | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Married. Drayton Phillips, 24, second son of Ambassador to Italy William Phillips; and Evelyn Foster Gardiner, 24, Boston socialite; at Chestnut Hill, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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