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Williams, who does pushups every morning to strengthen his wrists and forearm muscles, DiMag frowns on off-the-field exercise, likes to loll in bed until 10 a.m. or later. He is also fond of his food: "I don't diet. I believe in three square meals a day and I'm not ashamed to say I'm nuts about spaghetti...
Billy Rose had already given five columns worth of detailed advice to the Metropolitan Opera Association on how to cure its ills (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week, he tossed off some parting general prescriptions, called them his "fond adieu to the fair land of Culture and Confusion...
That was somewhat unfair to the late Prince Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, Juliana's father, of whom the Princess was very fond. Prince Henry was far more tolerant than Wilhelmina. Once, Juliana was secretly smoking with several ladies-in-waiting when the door was thrown open imperiously. Aghast, the girls expected to see Wilhelmina. But when it turned out to be Juliana's father, she ran to embrace him, crying: "It's only Mecklenburg...
...John Reeves Ellerman might be mistaken for a wealthy dilettante. He acts in little plays with his own theater company, in his own private theater. He is fond of odd pets, which have included several porcupines and an elephant named Charlie. He has his own private orchestra, which plays for his rare but lavish parties. But young (38) Sir John is no lighthearted dabbler; he is deadly serious about three things...
...disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired out as a servant. It was nice at Miss Anderson's and all would have been well had not her father's wealthy, eccentric mother relented and taken Bridie...