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Died. Lord Charles Arthur Francis Cavendish, 38, second son of the late (ninth) Duke of Devonshire, husband of famed, U.S.-born onetime dancer Adele Astaire; after long illness; in his hereditary Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland. The tall, high-domed, horse-fancying Eton & Cambridge-man met the musicomedy star (an Omaha brewer's daughter) in the late '20s, married her at his family's rural, palatial "Chatsworth" (Derbyshire) in 1932, soon established her in their cliff-topping Irish pile, complete with salmon stream, 200 rooms and (she said) one bath. Their daughter (1933) and twin sons...
Last week West Derbyshire chose the cobbler's son, gave Winston Churchill and his Coalition Government a resounding sock in the eye. The vote: for slim 26-year-old Lieut. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 11,775; for paunchy, greying (52) independent socialist Charlie White...
Symbolic Temper. Through all but five of the last 210 years a Cavendish, or a relative of one, has represented West Derbyshire. In 1918 the family lost the seat to White's father. In 1923 Lord Hartington's father, now the Duke of Devonshire, regained it for the Cavendishes. In last week's contest, Churchill intervened with an explosive plea for Cavendishes & Coalition: "It would indeed be a disaster if Britain, after the great things she has done, went to pieces and fell into petty squabbles. . . . These by-elections are . . . symbolic and electors by their votes...
...Cavendish Welles Cannon is the State Department's middle-aged and ailing Balkan expert. Hardworking, tired-eyed Mr. Cannon knows Hungary, Bulgaria and Greece intimately, has only a secondhand knowledge of the pro-Russian Czechs and the Yugoslavs...
...great 18th-Century British chemist and physicist Henry Cavendish (discoverer of nitric acid, the chemical composition of water, etc.) was so unsociable that he "was known to flee from a company of strangers uttering a queer cry like a frightened animal"; he was also so unworldly that when asked for a handout for a sick employe, he offered...