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...Married. Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 23, grandson of late Brewer August Busch (Anheuser-Busch), who was kidnapped ten years ago and recovered unharmed next day; and Ann Patricia Thornley, 20, Manhattan debutante; in Manhattan...
...Harrison who named Tax Lawyer Randolph Evernghim Paul of Wall Street's Lord, Day & Lord as moderator. Moderator Paul chose his sides skillfully. On business' teams, he lined up such stalwarts as Old Colony Trust Co.'s T. Jefferson Coolidge, Dime Savings Bank's Philip Adolphus Benson, Guaranty Trust Co.'s Robert L. Garner, Bowery Savings Bank's Earl Bryan Schwulst, Kuhn Loeb's Benjamin J. Buttenwieser. On Government's team, he picked such men as Jerome Frank, Leon Henderson, Ben Cohen, Lauchlin Currie, Emanuel Alexander Goldenweiser, Commerce's Richard...
...Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career is the greatest paradox in paradoxical French politics. A prince of the church, Richelieu revived and carried through the domestic and foreign policies of Protestant Henri IV ("Paris is worth a Mass!"). In league with the greatest living Protestant king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Catholic Richelieu broke the power of the greatest Catholic state in Europe-Habsburg Spain...
Died. Dr. Sigard Adolphus Knopf, 82, internationally famed authority on tuberculosis; in Manhattan. His Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses and How to Combat It, first published in 1900, has since been translated into thirty languages...
Gustavus Lascelles Hamilton-Russell, son of Viscount Boyne and nephew of the Earl of Harewood (brother-in-law of George VI). His ancestor Sir Frederick Hamilton had distinguished himself fighting Germans under Sweden's great King Gustavus Adolphus. Guardsman Hamilton-Russell's son Gustavus Michael George, aged 8 and the final survivor of his family, is now heir to Lord Boyne...