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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killed in Action. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 27, Protestant husband of ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy's daughter Kathleen (married last May in a Chelsea registry office, without Catholic consent), Captain in the Coldstream Guards, heir to the Duchy of Devonshire; in France. The Marchioness has been in the U.S. since August when her oldest brother, Joseph Jr., was killed in action...
Died. Marguerite Alice ("Missy") LeHand. 47, superconfidential secretary of President Roosevelt until her retirement in 1942; of cerebral hemorrhage; during a vacation in Chelsea, Mass. Born in Potsdam, N.Y., daughter of a real-estate man, she went to Washington as a Bureau of Ordnance stenographer, first worked for Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for Vice President in 1920. Gracious, efficient "Missy" stayed on, checking his accounts, presiding at the tea table when Mrs. Roosevelt was absent, deciding which appointment seekers and telephone callers should reach him, answering much of his personal correspondence, sitting with him evenings to take down...
Charlie Evans, Cockney dustman, plugged steadily at his job of collecting garbage in Chelsea borough. He worried a bit about his son Charles, his son-in-law George, both in the Royal Navy, both probably somewhere in the Channel. But what got him proper hot was a report that Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to go to France with the troops.† Said Evans: " 'E knows 'e mustn't go out of the country. 'E's Minister of Defense, and if they tried something 'ere where would we be without 'im? In times...
Last week, the debate concluded, the Marquess of Hartington repaired to the Chelsea Registry Office, accompanied by his best man, the Duke of Rutland. Both wore Guards' uniforms and snug Sam Brownes. Fifteen minutes later Kathleen Kennedy arrived in delphinium pink suede crepe, a short mink jacket and a little hat of pink & blue ostrich feathers. Lieut. Joseph Kennedy Jr., U.S.N.R., came to give his sister away...
During the absence of Lt. Comdr. Carl Knudsen, USNR (Ch. C), who is confined to Chelsea Naval Hospital, a group of local clergymen will take over his duties as Chaplain for the Navy Training Schools and V-12. They will be in Phillips Brooks House on the third floor from 4:30 to 6:30 o'clock on the days mentioned below. January 24, Rev. Prentiss L. Pemberton, Baptist; January 25, Rev. Frederick B. Kellogg, Episcopalian; January 26, Rev. Cecil H. Rose, Presbyterian; January 27, Rev. Leonard G. Clough, Congregational; January 28, Rev. D. J. Fitzpatrick, Roman Catholic; January...