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...Crown Prince frequently paid friendly visits to the young physician at the hospital to the great consternation of his solemn lifeguard of sometimes 3,500 magnificently armed men. He was born in 1909 according to Ethiopian calculation of time, but in 1915 according to our calendar. His name with titles looks like this: Mgorash Moered Atmatch Asfa Woosen. He is a very munificent monarch who talks many languages, a stately young man who lives in Dessye and governs that province, so to speak, to learn the art of ruling the entire country...
Judge Nields was born in Wilmington in 1868, graduated from Harvard Law School in 1892. His father was a captain of Delaware artillery in the Civil War. As Federal District Attorney in 1906, John Nields helped snuff out the Louisiana Lottery, whose printing offices were in Wilmington. He raided the lottery office, destroyed, among other things, complete samples of every kind of lottery ticket sold at that time in the U. S. and England. Because he is a devoted antiquarian, and avid student of Americana, this act of destruction must have been one of life's hardest tasks...
Fifty-eight years ago he was born in Brooklyn to desperately poor parents, a puny, sickly babe, given small chance to survive. When he was five his father died. Soon his mother took him to Charleston, S. C. to live with her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Byrnes. There young Frank had his cousin Jim for playmate and foster brother. Today Cousin Jim Byrnes is junior U. S. Senator from South Carolina and a great & good friend of President Roosevelt. But in that hard-pressed family of women and children there was small time for play. At 12 Frank went to work...
...busy with 550 English, Welsh and Scottish Mayors and provosts on the Silver Jubilee, Edward of Wales was recalled last week from Vienna and Budapest where he has been sporting with a mixed party of twelve gay friends featuring charming, horsy, Baltimore-born Mrs. Simpson* and her aunt...
...last week his third son was born...