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...idea could have been more appalling to the late tall, bald Prince Georges Vasili Matchabelli. Georgian-born, like the marrying Mdivanis (but with the difference that his right to his title was never questioned), no Georgian prince was ever more aware than he of the value of a title. Once Minister to Rome for the short-lived Georgian Republic of 1918-21, he married the Italian Actress Maria Carmi, went...
...another large congregation-Old Stone Church on Public Square in Cleveland. To succeed Dr. Robert Wilson Mark who resigned in 1933, Old Stone's congregation agreed unanimously that Dr. Whyte is the man-one of the ablest of Presbyterian pulpiteers, suave, deep-voiced, grey-haired at 45. Toronto-born and educated, he delivered Canada's message to the first World Brotherhood Conference (32 nations) in London in 1919. Dr. Whyte is an expert on church law. appears as counsel before many a Presbyterian ecclesiastical court. Father of three, he accepted the Cleveland call partly because Old Stone Church...
...great artist ever lived so long as Tiziano Vecelli. Born high in the Alps, 70 miles from Venice, he lived to be 99, died enormously rich and honored, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire, of the plague in 1576. Titian never starved in a garret. Sent to Venice to study painting by his father, apparently a man of some means, Titian formed an early partnership with Giorgione, soon won profitable city contracts from the Council, who liked him for his frank sensuousness, his Oriental love of color and display, his shrewd business sense. Traveling to Ferrara...
Recipient of last week's milestone was Joseph V. Ledwinka, 64, Vienna-born chief engineer of Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. (Philadelphia), makers of automobile and railroad equipment (see p. 49). The company sent him to Washington to be photographed receiving his papers from the hand of Conway Peyton Coe, young Commissioner of Patents. Engineer Ledwinka was not excited by the event. This was the 248th U. S. patent he has received since, in 1899, he invented "a means of propulsion of vehicles by electricity...
...Born. To Ghazi I and Alia, King & Queen of Irak: a son, their first; in Baghdad...