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Last week the Daily Mirror moved an open-eyed step further. To the Mirror's weekly, nine-month-old advice column, called "Peter Cavendish is your friend," a mother wrote asking if she should allow her 20-year-old daughter to spend a holiday alone with the daughter's 30-year-old soldier-fiance. Advised "Peter Cavendish," whose real identity is secret: "I am old enough to remember the time when the worst possible construction would have been placed on a young engaged couple taking a holiday together, but I am glad to think that such...
...week, as the Vanderbilt tournament progressed in tick-tock silence, it began to look as if Mrs. Sobel's sharp red nails would scoop in the most important championship of all. Playing with three young Manhattanites (Sam Fry Jr., Benedict Jarmel and 27-year-old George Rapee), her Cavendish Club team survived the qualifying rounds and knock-out matches (116 boards), came up to the final the favorite. The other finalist was the New York Bridge Whist Club (Lee Hazen, Richard L. Frey, S. M. Stayman...
...crucial board, Messrs. Rapee & Fry of the Cavendish team bid three diamonds, made five, scored 150 points (including so-point bonus for under-game contract). Playing the same hand in another room, Messrs. Hazen & Frey of the Bridge Whist team bid five hearts, were doubled, redoubled, made their bid, and, being vulnerable, scored 1,100 points. The money hand, opened by Hazen with a daring three-heart...
...first partner (in pre-Hollywood days) was his sister, pert, chic Adele, who left him in 1932 to become Lady Cavendish and live in an Irish castle. The second was Ginger Rogers, who joined him in his second picture, Flying Down to Rio, in 1933. Six years later, just as Adele had left him, so Ginger Rogers departed, to shroud her lyric legs in the toga of a dramatic actress. Astaire tried two new partners: proficient, metallic Eleanor Powell and gaminous Paulette Goddard. Neither Hollywood nor the nation was impressed...
Married. Deborah Vivien Freeman-Mitford, 20, sixth and youngest of the beauteous daughters of ex-Appeaser Lord Redesdale; and Lord Andrew Cavendish, 20, Coldstream Guardsman, second son of the Duke of Devonshire; in London. Sister Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, appearing publicly for the first time since she returned last year from a visit to Germany with mysterious bullet wounds in her neck (TIME, Jan. 15, 1940), attended-by a side door...