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Said Lady Nancy Langhorne Aston "I never even let my husband know what money I have. It is a great distress to me that my bankers should know. ... I like to have a little in my heart that nobody knows about." Few days later Lady Astor, a native Virginian, allowed the Press to learn that she had telephoned from London a pledge of $200 to the Community Chest Fund of Richmond...
Died. Sir Aston Webb*, 81, one of the only two architects ever elected president of the British Royal Academy; after long illness, in London. He designed many of London's greatest public buildings: the Admiralty Arch at the east end of the Mall, the Royal College of Science, the new front of Buckingham Palace...
...Byers Co. Largest U. S. manufacturer of wrought iron pipe; is building a $10,000,000 plant for production of seamless pipe using a new process (Aston process) that reduces cost of wrought iron; affiliated with Oil Well Supply Co., which distributes Byers pipe to oil industry...
...dawn in London people began to line up outside the stadium at Highbury where Aston Villa was going to play soccer against Woolwich Arsenal in the afternoon. When the turnstiles opened at 12 o'clock the line was a mile long. An hour later the gates closed, since the stadium was full, and the crowd outside began to fight. A hundred men were hurt. Women who fainted were passed back over the heads of the mob to the ambulance men working in the rear. Inside, Arsenal beat Aston Villa 4 to 1. The players were unhurt...
...Besides Bacon those who received the Gold Medal are: Victor Laloux of France. Charles F. McKim of the U. S. (designer of the Morgan Library). Jean Louis Pascal of France. George B. Post of the U. S. Sir Aston Yebb of Great Britain...