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...Scotland, legendary scene of Macbeth's murder of Duncan, died of heart disease last week in London. She was the hardworking, domestic, society-shunning Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, wife of the 83-year-old 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. Descendant of England's famed Cavendish and Bentinck families, the daughter of a clergyman grandson of the. third Duke of Portland, the Countess was the mother of ten children, six of them still living. By far her most noted child is England's Queen Elizabeth, consort of George...
Died. Victor Christian William Cavendish, 69, ninth Duke of Devonshire and head of one of England's oldest families; of pneumonia; in London. An M. P. at 23, he held many a high office, was from 1916 to 1921 Governor-General of Canada...
Said the Duke of Portland's marriageable granddaughter, Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, who was observed to be wearing nothing at all last week on the third finger of her left hand, "I am sorry, I can say nothing...
Twenty-four hours later the King's handsome young brother, Prince Charles, 34, arrived in England, did not go to Welbeck Abbey. In 1932 Prince Charles was rumored engaged to the Duke of Portland's fair-haired granddaughter, the none-too-beauteous Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, now 21. World-wide rumors that Lady Anne is about to become either Queen or a Princess of the Belgians were met by official denials carried on British Press Association wires and at Brussels the King's Secretary, Baron Capelle called them "childish fairy tales...
...years ago Cambridge announced that it would build an atom-smasher of the Lawrence type. The Cavendish workers now expect their machine to be running in about a month. But Lord Rutherford will never see it start. He died last week, aged 66, after failing to rally from an abdominal operation. His passing evoked expressions of grief and tribute from all over the scientific world. Said 80-year-old Sir J. J. Thomson, famed discoverer of the electron, who once was Rutherford's teacher: ''His work was so great that it cannot be compassed...