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...girls nominated this week include Luretta Davis, Raquel Heller, Mary Lou Buckley, Donna Cook, Barbara Heanue, Ruth Reichart, all of them senior class officers, Mary Bruchholz, Alice Gilbert, Winifred Libbon, Joan McPartlin, Joan Projansky, Francena Thomas, Irene Tinker, and Suzanne Watson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex '49 Votes Next Week On Commencement Officers | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...avoid temper tantrums and "excessive showmanship." Said he: "Too often the ability of a surgeon is compromised by his temper exposed in the operating room, and he becomes his own worst handicap . . . His prayer should be, 'Give me skill with humility, and prevent me from becoming a prima donna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Showoffs & Prima Donnas | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

Divorced. Francis X. (for Xavier) Shields, 38, former No. i ranking U.S. tennis player (during the '305) and Davis Cupper (1934); by Donna Marina Torlonia Shields, 32, daughter of the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; after eight years of marriage, two children; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...about that. After a series of musical fiascos in recent years, they wanted a "great" conductor to resurrect the orchestra's fame & fortune. Said one director: "The board all want him. He's a great musician, though I understand he's a little on the prima donna side. He might be hard for Eddie [Association President Edward Ryerson] to handle." There were other considerations. Said one symphony musician: "Maybe it's just as well if Furtwangler doesn't come. I understand his beat is very difficult and strange. He comes down with a sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chill Wind in Chicago | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Donna Rachele Mussolini, 59-year-old widow of the Duce, was temporarily unhappy in Forio, near Naples, where she was living in a cold-water flat with her two youngest, Anna Maria and Romano. According to Luigi Criscuolo, who publishes a monthly newsletter in Manhattan, she was considering a job-hunting trip to the U.S. (the daughter of a peasant, she worked in the fields and did a brief turn as housemaid before she married Benito). Criscuolo said she was broke; her $40-a-month government pension had been cut off, but once she got to the U.S. things would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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