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* Wife of Publicist Gervas Huxley, cousin of Aldous and Julian.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faustus in the Jungle | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

Married. Betty Baden-Powell, daughter of Lieut.-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, who founded the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (British Girl Scouts); and Gervas Clay, Rhodesia official; in Bentley, England.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 5, 1936 | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

India, Ceylon and Java-Sumatra export 85% of the world's tea. The U. S. buys 80,000,000 Ib. of tea a year, for which it pays $16,000,000. Only Great Britain consumes more. To make U. S. inhabitants even more ardent tea drinkers has long been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Tea Test | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

The following estimates of books much in the public eye were made after careful consideration of the trend of critical opinion: THE MAN WHO ATE THE POPOMACK-W. J. Turner-Brentanos ($1.50). The popomack is a fruit- the rarest and most delicious fruit known to mankind. It had only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Books: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

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