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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Latest-born adult male of their line is that chronic wanderer and ne'er-do-well Lord Edward Montagu, 29. godson of King Edward VII, who last made news in February when, after several false starts, he abandoned his hot-dog stand at Maidenhead and enlisted in France's Foreign Legion, only to be ousted promptly as physically unfit. Last week in London's Old Bailey his profligate father William Angus Drogo ("Kim"; Montagu, ninth Duke of Manchester, beefy, ruddy, 58-year-old ex-husband of a U. S. heiress,* was sentenced to nine months in jail...
Lindbergh: "A singularly human and sensible guy . . . not so shy, either, but annoyed, and rightly so, by all the publicity. . . . I continue to rank him at the very top of real men. The most surprising thing about him, I found, was his technical ability. He is a born engineer...
...Born. To King Christian X of Denmark: a granddaughter, first child of Prince Knud, 34, and Princess Caroline Mathilde, 23; in Copenhagen...
...Born in Manhattan of impoverished musical parents. Artist Kroll used to haunt the old red brick & granite Metropolitan museum as a child. Not until he was about 12 did he get nerve enough to climb the stairs past the dusty plaster casts of the ground floor to the paintings on the floor above. The Metropolitan was a far different place then from the great treasure house that it has since become, but it had Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair, Meissoniers Friedland, and Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Little Leon Kroll swore that he would become a painter...
Handsome, well-born John Lavalle was planning to become a portrait painter in 1917 when the War changed his plans and he became instead a commanding first lieutenant in the same air squadron with a New Yorker named Fiorello LaGuardia. After the War, what with having four handsome children, the death of his first wife and his marriage to a pretty, high-strung daughter of the Cincinnati tobacco Wilsons, he developed his art career slowly. Last week at the age of 38, he finally got 26 able portraits up on the walls of Manhattan's Grand Central Fifth Avenue...