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...story told beneath the headlines was that all the time Charles Augustus Lindbergh was supposedly hobnobbing with Nazis in Berlin, and tattling on Soviet Russia to friends of Nazis in Great Britain,* he was actually functioning as a sort of U. S. spy abroad; that instead of letting Messrs. Hitler, Goebbels, et al. dupe him, he was making fools of them for the benefit of world Democracy...
Divorced. Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross, 66, inventor of the Ross rifle and one of the largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords...
...Lord & Lady Astor. Occasional visitors to Cliveden are Prime Minister & Mrs. Neville Chamberlain; Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England; Geoffrey Dawson,' editor of the potent London Times, which is owned by Lady Astor's brother-in-law. Major John Jacob Astor; and Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...case in Lexington, Ky. was a good deal more complicated. There, four years ago, appeared a sculptor in his middle 30s who said that his name was Augustus Donfred H. Build. He was the son of a New York physician, said he, had studied in Florence for seven years, and met his pretty wife, Corinne, while executing a commission in Tennessee...
...came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. . . . And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem . . . to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling...