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With a private fortune of some $50,000,000, plus Arundel Castle and estates of 49,900 acres and bearing the name of HOWARD-which is, in English opinion, the most illustrious nonRoyal name in England-there was married at Brompton Oratory in London last week, while some 2,000 women scrambled, screamed and fought with police to glimpse the proceedings, England's Premier Duke, Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England, Earl of Arundel, Surrey and Norfolk, Baron Fitz Alan, Clun, Oswaldestre and Maltravers, onetime 2nd Lieut...
...court, he made French the court language, sent Russian artists, most of whom were serfs, abroad to study, imported droves of Italian, German, French craftsmen. At least four Britons brought in were among the founders of Russian secular art: James Walker, John Augustus Atkinson, Edward Miles and Landscapist Richard Brompton...
Married-Gwendolyn, only daughter of famed Tenor John McCormack; and Edward Pyke, Liverpool businessman; in London. Hordes of Londoners pressed into Brompton Oratory to hear Tenor McCormack sing the Ave Maria ("the song of my life...
Married. Margaret Whigham, daughter of Board Chairman George Hay Whigham of Celanese Corp. of America ; and Charles Sweeney, onetime U. S. captain of the Oxford golf team; in London's huge Brompton Oratory (Roman Catholic...
...Carlton Club (founded a year later than the Garrick, but centuries older in Conservatism) seethed with indignation, last week, over the unseemly marriage of the young Earl of Bective to Lady Clarke of Rupertswood, in Brompton Oratory...