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...diplomat to help Western Europe toward unity. For this job Truman picked David K. E. Bruce, chief of the Economic Cooperation Administration mission in France, a lawyer and Virginia gentleman farmer. Bruce learned economics managing Mellon interests (his first wife was Andy Mellon's only daughter, Ailsa), later took a postgraduate course as Assistant Secretary of Commerce. To succeed Bruce at EGA he picked lively, earnest Barry Bingham, 43, wartime naval officer, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal and son of the late Robert Worth Bingham, onetime ambassador to Great Britain...
Divorced. By Ailsa Mellon Bruce, fortyish, shy, only daughter of the late multimillionaire Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon: Colonel David K. E. Bruce, 47, handsome socialite; after 19 years of marriage; in Palm Beach...
Died. Archibald Kennedy, Marquess of Ailsa, 90, Scottish shipbuilder and landowner; in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland. In 1930 the Marquess bought St. Kilda's Island, one of the Hebrides, ordered the inhabitants to evacuate it, said he would never again permit it to be settled because of its barrenness...
Were not the holding companies by which he transferred about half of his $200,000,000 fortune to his son Paul and daughter Ailsa merely devices for escaping inheritance and gift taxes...
...Mellon declared he almost refused to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James's because of his desire to see Daughter Ailsa Mellon Bruce well provided for during his lifetime...