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Heavily engraved invitations sent out by Lady Decies (formerly Elizabeth Drexel of Philadelphia) sent the British Library of Information bustling about over a point of etiquette. Said the invitation: "Lady Elizabeth Decies (the Right Honorable Elizabeth Beresford, Baroness Decies) requests the pleasure of your company," etc. But Lady Decies, pointed out the B.L.I., is merely wife of a privy councillor of the lowest rank of the peerage (John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies). is therefore a "Lady," but not a "Right Honorable." Nor can she call herself "Lady Elizabeth," nor "Elizabeth, Lady," titles proper only...
Sued for Divorce. Lady Decies, 70, the former Elizabeth Drexel; by 75-year-old John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, her third husband; in London. Grounds: desertion...
...call it off, then go on with their lives." -t - Sixty-nine-year-old Lady Decies, bejeweled grand dame of the international set, announced at starchy Newport (the scene of many of her fabulous social antics 30 years ago) that 74-year-old John Graham Hope De la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, was suing her for divorce on grounds of desertion. Once she was the wife of chilly Henry Symes Lehr, Society's top fop and unofficial Newport jester, whom she delicately peeled in her book "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age. She wrote that she had never been...
...Harvard delegation, representing Germany, will be headed by Avery Dulles '40 and will include Walter Counts '41, Spencer Beresford '39. Rodman Gilder '40, and William Sigerson...
...trust the German Navy! You can't trust the German Government!" they shouted, about 100 strong, deployed in the stuffy Beresford Hotel lounge...