Word: coldstreamers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Kathleen, Marchioness of Hartington, 28, bright-eyed second daughter (of nine children) of Joseph P. Kennedy, onetime, (1937-41) Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; in a plane crash; near Privas, France. The Marquess, a captain in the Coldstream Guards, was killed in action 18 weeks after their marriage in 1944, four weeks after her brother, U.S. Navy Lieut. Joseph P. Jr., was killed on an operational flight...
Born. To Mary Churchill Soames, 25, pretty, youngest daughter of Winston Churchill, and Christopher Soames, 27, Coldstream Guards captain: their first child (and Churchill's fifth grandchild), a son; in Croydon, England. Weight...
Married. Mary Spencer Churchill, 24, pretty, apple-cheeked, youngest daughter of Winston; to Captain Christopher Soames, 26, Coldstream Guardsman, assistant military attache at the British Embassy in Paris; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Change." At first London was jittery; it expected clashes and cracked skulls. But at Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...
...Owoooooo!" cried the housewives of Cerne Abbas (Dorset), "here's the milkman and me with the curlers still in my hair!" No wonder they were fluttered. The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son. Winston Churchill...