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... little time in marrying again, and on his fifty-fourth birthday married Esther Col- throp, who was over thirty years his junior. She was a very beautiful young woman, as you will have noticed from her portraits but he had been married no more than a few ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3769 | Page: 9 | Tags: Illustrations 

Centenaries Of 1950

... many people con cerned either as principals or victims with this upheaval. The name of Tussaud came from the Frenchman she married in 1794, but from whom she soon parted. Coming to England with a collection of her wax figures she first toured the provinces ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1273 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CLASSIC MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE

... command of Benjamin Briggs, Massachusetts deep-water sailorman. It so hap pened that somewhere between 1869 and 1871 Briggs married an uninspiring little mouse of a New Jersey girl, Mary Sellars and almost immediately he stepped aboard his new command the ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2686 | Page: 74 | Tags: Illustrations 

THEIR PLAYED 'r- - BRITAIN'S weather men the Air Minisfrv orofogical experts looked back on 1949: this morning ..

... touched about 85 - degrees- ' tf-s-y - snrowngnv calculations ' Eastern back 1840's Companyj had to di through years They were married at St records to figures meet Wallsend by late Canon 1949'S ouutanuing condations - ixienaerson ana nvea church (48 i- years ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 2796 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Books

... at various stages of her life when she is linked with other men including a husband, an elderly industrial peer eventually marries her him self, dies dropsically in her arms, and still haunts her old age. An inimitable Cary situation straight from The Horse's ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1906 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

A FEW years before t

... Burne- Jones and to my own two portraits, the one by Orpen, painted in 1920 and the other by Augustus John, the year I' was married. Come along and see the whole show. We spent the next hour or so in the huge library looking at the Courtenay portraits, ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1859 | Page: 8 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Dragon and the Dreambreaker

... slave of fashion. I'll be glad when the carnival's over. Why? I'm going back to London then. I hope not. We could be married in Nice. You forget what I've told you. I'm a career girl. You've played about with career enough. We could have a wonderful ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3566 | Page: 58 | Tags: Illustrations 

Parted For A Month

... again. in Rome. I agreed to marry him. He wanted it to be that taster. but there were complications For he had not the documents proving the annulment of his first marriage. and they were required before anyone would marry us. It was Don Jaime who thought ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Weekly Dispatch (London)
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 511 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Sunday Mercury quiz 1 WHO said: “No but a blockhead ever wrote except for money ? WHEN were muskets invented

... eachway bet they’d ’ave a chance” “I don’t follow ” “A chap I know always swears by the each-way system ’E puts ’is ’appy married life down to it When ’e got spliced ’e resolved to always go straight ’ome from work whenever 'e couldn’t think of anywhere ...

Published: Sunday 01 January 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 2181 | Page: 11 | Tags: none