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Born. To the ninth Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada; a son (he has been married since 1912, has two other children); in Montreal. The child is the first to be born to a Governor-General of Canada since the present Dowager Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava gave birth to a son in 1875. From George V came a request that he might be the boy's godfather...
...Vanity Fair received a scathing letter from Mrs. Ava Long, White Housekeeper, last week. Mrs. Long had read an article, Your Host in the White House by Jefferson Chase, in the smartchart's March issue which ridiculed the sorry lack of ceremony at White House functions. Said Author Chase: "There is not a humble Negro lodge-brother who could not give pur Government cards and aces and beat it every time on dignified ceremonial." Said Housekeeper Long: "Jefferson Chase should be run out of town. . . . You would be the first to object if your taxes were increased in order...
Died. Frederick Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin & Ava; Rosemary Millicent Ward, Viscountess Ednam & Sir Edward Simons Ward; Mrs. Henrik Loeffler; Pilot George L. P. Henderson; Assistant Pilot John Shearing; when their airtaxi, returning to London from Mrs. Loeffler's houseparty at Le Touquet, exploded midair; at Meopham, Kent, England...
...sturdy Norman-Gothic edifice with a steep-gabled carillon tower, suggesting the village churches of France. A minute side chapel, seating possibly a score, will have altar vessels of duralumin salvaged from the wreck of the Naval dirigible Shenandoah which soared away from Lakehurst and crumpled over Ava, Ohio, in 1925 (TIME, Sept. 14, 1925). Non-sectarian services will be conducted by the Navy's Lakehurst resident chaplain...
...bloody grave, Fanny, her European maid-of-honor, found herself a favorite. In spite of wholesale massacres not quite drowned out by nightlong music and daylong feasting, Fanny enjoyed those butterfly years. But then she fell in love with Bonvoisin, who had come to the court of Ava to get the concession to the royal ruby mines. He was a Frenchman, but she took him seriously. When he returned with a wife, Fanny stole copies of the treaties Mandalay had made with France, gave them to the English, had her revenge on Bonvoisin, brought down everything in ruins...