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...scarabaeoid object labeled "Agnimani, the Magic Gem of the Orient" from one Baron Richard de Touche-Skadding...
Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of the Dominion of India, got the royal nod from his cousin, George VI, on his selection of titles to go with his new earldom (TIME, Aug. 25). Henceforth, it was announced in London, he will be known as Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey of Romsey...
Died. John Joseph ("Jack") Dunne, 57, beer baron of the Dry Decade; during an operation; in Jersey City. Dunne kept a number of giant Jersey breweries running during Prohibition, bootlegged his way to a $15 million fortune, discreetly retired in 1930 when gangstering got too hot for him, went bankrupt eleven years later...
...Died. Baron Henri de Rothschild, 75. French financier, physician, philanthropist and viniculturist; of a heart ailment; near Lausanne, Switzerland. Probably the most noteworthy of the Rothschilds, Baron Henri won respect for his work on infants' diseases, on milk as a food, and on the radium treatment of cancer (he set up the famed Pierre Curie Institute for radium research). He also found time to write plays for the Paris stage...
...never won his blue, he wrote the chapter on sport in the Oxford handbook. A confirmed bachelor, he accepted an invitation to a B.N.C. ball, with the stipulation that he be allowed to bring his own date. He arrived with his date on his arm: the Lord Chief Justice Baron Goddard...